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Even as he tries to push forward with his grand vision of democratic reform, a malign undertow draws Wahid back into the corrupt old ways of Suharto and his cronies. Financial scandals have been creeping closer to his inner circle. Now his former masseur is being investigated for allegedly embezzling $4.7 million from the state rice-distribution agency...
...care explosion hit Memphis hard. About 9,000 children in Shelby County (which includes Memphis) received subsidized care before welfare reform; by 1999, the number was 21,000. Centers relying on those $85-a-week kids could soon be found on almost every corner of the inner city. For a few local entrepreneurs, it was a windfall. For example, Koinonia Child Care Center, run by the Rev. Roosevelt Joyner, has doubled in size since reform and today receives more than $1.7 million a year in child-care subsidies. Says Joyner: "The reforms put a lot of minority people who would...
...perhaps Joel is crying on the inside. Perhaps he's curled up on the couch at home, eating chocolate ice cream straight out of the carton and torturing himself with a baleful inner monologue about democracy, popularity and the price you pay for chauvinism...
That changed in 1995. Lind felt a special empathy for the oppressed; she attracted national attention for a series of dynamic social programs she had introduced as pastor to St. Paul's Episcopal Church in inner-city Paterson, N.J. But then a storm brewed in her backyard. Former Newark assistant bishop Walter Righter was charged with heresy for having knowingly ordained an open homosexual named Barry Stopfel...
...thought all I would have to do was maintain that, yes, Kansas City is a real city. Downtown has everything from tall, fancy office buildings to inner-city crime-ridden areas. Perhaps I would avoid the cow questions...