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...welfare rhetoric will be the children of poor single women. They're the ones who will have to face the restigmatization of "illegitimacy" -- in the playground, where it will really hurt. They're the ones who will come home to empty apartments while their mothers process words and flip burgers. And, as dozens of disappointing welfare-to-work programs have shown, the low-wage jobs available to welfare recipients are hardly a cure for poverty. The net result of forcing welfare mothers to work will be a further decline in wages for everyone -- as desperate women flood the work force...
...murder's immediate aftermath, most of the major pro-life organizations scrambled, convincingly, to dissociate themselves from Hill. Echoing more mainline groups, Operation Rescue director Flip Benham trumpeted, "We condemn it as murder, a sin. If I'd been with Paul Hill this morning, I would've stepped between him ((and Britton))." Expressing the fears of more temperate antiabortionists, Benham added, "This will have devastating effects on the number of picketers. There's a good number of folks who don't want to be associated with this...
...stores.) In France, however, he is an icon. French publishers have issued at least four lavish books on his oeuvre (just one exists in English, a spirited overview by Joe Adamson). In Paris and Cannes there are Studio Aventures stores peddling Avery T shirts, slippers, Red Hot Riding Hood flip books -- the works. His name has even been spelled out on the tiles of the hit game show La Roue de la Fortune...
WASHINGTON -- The Administration has a problem. PRESIDENT CLINTON said he would veto any health-care bill without universal coverage. Now that he may have to flip-flop on the issue, he doesn't want to look as if he's flip- flopping. White House advisers say a buzz word has been coined to make delay seem O.K. Says an insider: "If we can construct a 'pathway' to get there by 2002, he'll accept...
...program, Charles bemoaned the impudent incursions of the press -- though the royals are dependent on it. He griped about his job. Not only is this unseemly, it invites a flip riposte: if the job is such a drag, go back to farming, and let's call the monarchy off. This is no way to run a family business, and the time for royal self-indulgence has long since passed...