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After shunning inner-city neighborhoods for years, Bush visited four of them last week. In Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, he toured downtrodden districts that are implementing "Weed and Seed" programs, combining intensive policing with new drug-treatment and job-training services. In Baltimore, Bush was scheduled to speak on health care, but added an announcement of $600 million in disaster loans for Los Angeles...
...doesn't, but for years the acrimonious debate over how to protect heroin users has impeded efforts by health authorities to control the spread of AIDS. Civic leaders have been caught up in moralistic arguments over whether providing clean needles to addicts would only accelerate inner-city drug abuse. In minority communities, opponents insisted that needle handouts were akin to genocide. Meanwhile, AIDS raced through intravenous-drug-using populations. Today one-third of the nation's AIDS cases originate from IV drug use. More specifically, 71% of all females with AIDS are linked directly or indirectly to IV drug...
Last New Year's Day, Boston's Sheriff Robert Rufo gave 935 hardened criminals a present: a postmodern pink concrete-and-brick high-rise home -- a new designer prison, with a colonnaded inner courtyard where the inmates, clad in bright orange jackets, could stroll in pairs. Inside, brightly colored dayrooms equipped with televisions, butcher-block tables and cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five...
Fittingly, in a season when the Great White Way once again has an inner glow, this most Broadwayesque of musicals leads the way. It has been a season of powerhouse new plays by August Wilson, Herb Gardner, Neil Simon, Brian Friel and Richard Nelson. It has been a season of movie- and TV-star glitter -- Jessica Lange, Alec Baldwin and Amy Madigan in A Streetcar Named Desire; Glenn Close, Gene Hackman and Richard Dreyfuss in Ariel Dorfman's politically inflamed Death and the Maiden; fast-rising Larry Fishburne, direct from the angry film Boyz N the Hood to Wilson...
...ownership schemes that Bush favors, the elements that matter are these: an earned income tax credit that would ensure that those who work full time cannot fall below the poverty line; a proliferation of community financial institutions modeled on Chicago's South Shore Bank that would provide capital for inner-city businesses; welfare reform that would reduce benefits substantially for those who won't work; drug treatment on demand; national service, the plan that offers a college education to those who will "pay" for it with a period of community service at below-market wages; apprenticeship training for those...