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...those low-income women forced to complete their pregnancies, their children will have the fewest opportunities to advance. Conservatives who pay little or no attention to the plight of the inner cities should think twice before effectively increasing their populations...
...problems of the inner city have touched you recently, which is likely, then you must sense that something needs to happen. Reading Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's media-hyped jabber in Spin and buying Kriss-Kross records does not solve anything--it just gives middle and upper-class consumers some temporary mental satisfaction about their own efforts to be good citizens...
Next door, in the nation's capital, the police chief resigned in tears the same day, having failed to bring down a murder rate that has claimed more than 2,000 lives in the past five years. In a brutalized city, where those who can afford it escape the inner city each night to suburban safety, the cold- blooded slaying of Basu touched nerves long numbed by statistics, destroying any notion that only a life of vice could lead to such a death. Pamela Basu, 34, was an award-winning research chemist with W.R. Grace & Co. The Indian-born scientist...
...even tragic figure. In his youth a dandified aesthete and party animal, he evolved into an eccentric, scowling, West Country squire who wore hideous tweed suits and wielded a Victorian ear trumpet like a snickersnee against enemies, real and imagined. That noli me tangere pose barely masked the inner Waugh: a self-lacerating loner who for a time, Stannard asserts, was certifiably schizophrenic. (The experience was transmuted in Waugh's strangest novel, The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold...
...Clinton has reverted to type. He massages and fillets the facts, leaving behind pronouncements that are technically accurate but devoid of the inner truth. His explanations about avoiding Vietnam do not hang together. From the beginning it has been obvious that if Clinton truly thought it unethical for him to remain home after four of his friends died in Vietnam, he could have exposed himself to the same risk at any moment simply by enlisting in the military. Even now, a last "last word" and a forthright mea culpa would help immeasurably. In seeking to understand his candidate's self...