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...should always look back on our own past," he said, "with a sort of tender contempt." The past echoed in Potter's inner ear like an accordion rendition of Peg o' My Heart: trite, tinny, extraordinarily potent. But as his days dwindled, he attended, rapturously, to the present. "I'm almost serene," he said to Bragg. "I can celebrate life. Below my window there's an apple tree in blossom. It's white. And looking at it -- instead of saying, 'Oh, that's a nice blossom' -- now, looking at it through the window, I see the whitest, frothiest, blossomest blossom...
...immigrate to the U.S. average four or five children. In crowded Mexico City each child imposes steep costs on a family, while in the U.S. welfare payments and other social safety nets buffer those costs. These skewed incentives convey similar signals to poor young women in America's inner cities, who in many cases see no reason to defer having children...
...poor neighborhoods residents can wind up paying even higher fees for financial service because of the shortage of bank branches. The lack of accessibility has forced many inner-city dwellers to turn to storefront check- cashing offices, which can charge as much as 3% of the value of a check. A 1991 Los Angeles city council survey found 133 check-cashing offices -- vs. only 19 bank and savings-and-loan branches -- serving South Central L.A.'s largely minority population of nearly 600,000. Right next door, more affluent (and Anglo) Gardena had 21 bank branches for fewer than...
...Britain's neglected downtrodden could achieve. But he won't let the audience off the hook with an uncomplicatedly happy ending. The flashing lights outside, seemingly signs of a festival or movie premiere, are at last revealed to be the flares of an ongoing civil war pitting London's inner suburbs against one another. Just as the farce is bringing reassuring order to its microcosmic world, the play's brilliant final five minutes kick away all assumptions of order in the larger world. It's vintage Ayckbourn: a puzzle, laughter and an aftershock...
...form of intoxication -- and thus reason to mitigate the sentence an Indiana man received for rape and murder. His client suffered from sexual sadism because of pornography, rendering him unable to gauge the wrongfulness of his conduct. Another lawyer in Milwaukee coined "cultural psychosis" to explain why an inner-city teenager killed another for her leather coat. The defense attorney sought to convince jurors that the girl's traumatic childhood in a violent inner-city neighborhood created a mental disorder similar to the posttraumatic stress syndrome that afflicts some Vietnam veterans...