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The "new Boston" is Ed Logue's success story. But the "master plan" has its share of critics. Skeptics have assailed Logue for caring more about the cosmetics of Boston's physical design than about the needs of the city's poor. They assert that hundreds of Logue's development...
In addition to these problems, Brazil has a relatively new and even more pressing problem-piles and piles of debt. Keeping company with such indigent nations as Zaïre, Peru and Bangladesh, Brazil has earned the dismal distinction of being the developing country that has plunged most deeply into...
Not so, said Justice Stewart last week, in an opinion joined by four of his colleagues. The Government, Stewart said, does not have to pay to help the poor exercise their constitutional rights: it did not create their poverty and so has no constitutional obligation to help relieve it in...
Marshall and Blackmun, in addition, accused the majority of dry legalistic reasoning that ignores the real world in which poor women live. Marshall listed some of the alternatives open to an indigent woman who must pay for an abortion herself: "not paying rent or utility bills, pawning household goods, diverting...
The practical effect of the court's decision may be less than suggested by the impassioned advocates on both sides. Even before Congress placed any restrictions on Medicaid abortions, the U.S. helped pay for only 300,000 abortions a year-fewer than a quarter of the roughly 1.4 million...