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Another way to dissolve knots of urban poverty is dispersing the poor in manageable numbers to the suburbs. Courts in several states, including New Jersey and Kentucky, have ordered localities to provide low-income housing, or forbidden them to prevent the construction of such housing. The prospect of poor people nearby makes suburbanites shudder. Yet the same self-interest that has made them turn away from the cities may eventually force them to recognize that the larger health of America requires the cities to be rescued. Even in a nation as spacious as the U.S., people are running...
While tobacco was the cash crop of choice in many parts of the New World, 20th century smokers singled out Cuba as the prestige producer of quality cigars. When the U.S. placed an embargo on Castro's communist economy in 1962, the forbidden Cuban premiums took on mythical qualities. For the truly devout, the mythic Cuban cigar has a heavy and rich aromatic taste that generally milder and sweeter cigars from the Dominican Republic, Honduras and Jamaica cannot match...
...Cecile Volanges (Bina Martin) to the promiscuous courtesan, Emilie (Danielle Kwatinetz). His primary goal, though, is to make the pious and virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Jeanne Simpson) "betray everything she believes in." And achieve this goal he does, but he falls in love with Tourvel along the way. The forbidden "Lword," which he once shared with the Marquise, has become so alien to him that when he does feel it once again, he shuns it. He is so afraid of exposing his Achilles heel--his real personality--that he alienates his true love in order to salvage...
...people believed the President last summer when he pronounced Clarence Thomas the most qualified man for the Supreme Court and asserted that racial considerations had nothing to do with his nomination. In an even more blatant falsehood, Bush said he had forbidden all high-level exchanges with China after the 1989 Tiananmen massacre -- even as he secretly sent his top foreign policy aide to meet with Beijing's leaders...
...addition, in small rural towns there is a paucity of certified doctors. Most pregnant women see nurses, who are still forbidden to talk about abortion. The new modification does nothing to help these women and in fact specifically discriminates against them...