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Medical men have taken advantage of lax administration to bill the Medicaid program for goods and services that were never provided-and in some cases their take has been tremendous. In New York, investigators are looking into the activities of two chiropractors who ran nine ghetto clinics. These operators are suspected of submitting forged invoices and persuading doctors in their clinics to match the invoices with phony treatment charts. The case, which could involve as many as 100 physicians, is believed to have cost Medicaid $4 million. A San Jose, Calif, psychiatrist recently went to jail because he would regularly...
Without knowledge of English, the immigrant is trapped in Chinatown. As Lee says, "It's like a ghetto. People grow up and spend their entire lives in Chinatown. They are naturally afraid to go outside without any knowledge of English...
...week. Americans won't do that." Yet in March, when the INS rounded up 50 aliens employed by a Chicago janitorial firm, 150 people instantly applied for the vacated jobs. Many illegals have taken positions that would eagerly be filled by the least employable Americans: ghetto youth and unskilled workers...
...professes to admire the poems of Monty (Adeyami Lythcott), her eventual rapist. But it is clear that she is drawn to a black man as by an intoxicating musk and a not-so-fantasied danger. Bullins' Monty is a street stud who has climbed out of the ghetto without shedding his skin. With "Miss Janie," as he tauntingly calls her, Monty does not so much wish to make a score as to even...
William Wendt is an Episcopal priest who has rarely flinched from trouble or feared innovation. His Church of St. Stephen and the Incarnation in Washington, D.C., has become one of the most liberal Episcopal congregations in the nation, active in the affairs of its neighboring ghetto and experimental in its liturgy. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that after eleven women were ordained in Philadelphia last summer as the first female Episcopal priests, Wendt was the first to open his church to one of them-Australia-born Alison Cheek, who celebrated the Eucharist there last November. Not only had the church...