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...care givers for most of the unemployed mentally ill. That's because 200,000 of them are homeless, according to the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, an advocacy group. Another 200,000 are incarcerated, usually as a result of petty crimes. Fewer than 70,000, on the other hand, live in state mental hospitals. And according to a study by Maryland researchers, less than 10% of Americans with schizophrenia are treated in the smaller community programs envisioned by Kennedy-era reformers...
...there's Stanley Tucci, there's Doris Kearns Goodwin, Harry Belafonte, Bob Morgenthau. Warm and funny with her inner circle, she is as eager to flee a room as her husband is to win over every one in it. She doesn't welcome a rope line or shake a hand she doesn't have to. She should have followed former Governor Mario Cuomo around for a few minutes as he pressed every bit of flesh there. ("Scotch-Irish?" he says to an attractive woman. "Your parents lied to you, you're Italian...
Return to the dialectics of the time: Lie No. 1, communism itself, eventually introduced America to Lie No. 2: "I am not a communist." Which set the stage for Lie No. 3: "I have here in my hand a list...
...world's largest Internet service provider (ISP), controlling nearly 50% of the eyeballs on the Net. AOL's contention--and the government's--is that Microsoft is comparing apples and oranges. True, AOL's 18 million online customers easily outnumber Microsoft's 2 million. On the other hand, Microsoft's Web browser now commands a 60% share of the U.S. office market against 40% and falling for AOL's, according to the latest figures from Zona Research (the release of which could not have come at a worse time for Gates...
Welcome to the one-hand-washes-the-other world of "Jim-Bob" Moffett, a former University of Texas football star, geologist and amateur Elvis-impersonator who built Freeport into a mining behemoth with annual revenues of almost $2 billion. Moffett himself is an F.O.S., or friend of Suharto, the ousted dictator of Indonesia, a country that is now a fuse in search of a match. An often violent election campaign leads up to voting on June 7 that could bring to power reformers long critical of Freeport...