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There is a nationwide trend toward involving the private bar more closely with legal help for the poor. But lively, sometimes acrimonious debate on the subject persists. Among the criticisms leveled by poverty-law veterans at participating private lawyers is that they tend to be less dedicated to poverty law...
AFGHANISTAN: SHAPELY COUNTRY toppling at the crossroads of antiquity and yesterday. From the mountains of Nuristan to the mountains of the Pamir Knot, from the Paropamisus Mountains to the mountains of Qandahar, Afghanistan is assuredly a land of contrasts. Americans recognize that Afghanistan is the strategically all-important eastern bulwark...
46. Jim Wallis, 31. "If there ever was a time when the radical nature of the Bible needs to be lived out courageously, it is now," says Wallis, a Protestant religious leader and the editor of an evangelical magazine. A Detroit native and a graduate of the University of Michigan...
Federal and state governments promote unnecessary hospitalization too. In the Miami area, a February survey found four times as many chronically ill Medicaid patients being treated in hospitals as in nursing homes. Dr. Gerard Mayer, who directed the survey, explains: "Medicaid in Florida makes such low payments to nursing homes...
The conservative King also fired Christina Crowe, deputy director of social services for the state welfare department, for criticizing his freeze on hiring social workers. He canceled two scheduled 6% cost-of-living increases for welfare recipients, most of whom are children, and then asked private charities to help make...