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There used to be another name for those programs: parents. And so family breakdown feeds poverty, which feeds more family breakdown. To interrupt that diabolical cycle, devoted fathers are crucial. That's one part of the equation that federal programs have neglected. But even the most devoted dads can't get jobs where there are none or start a business where there's no start-up capital-problems that conservatives pay lip service to at best. "You can't solve these problems on individual transformation alone,'' warns Harvard University professor and author Cornel West...
...point, a particularly testy exchange flared up after Domenici and Tyson got into what senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl called a "gloves-off discussion over Medicare and Medicaid cuts." When Tyson interrupted Domenici, the New Mexico Senator snapped, "I did not interrupt you, and you spoke for 14 minutes!" The tension subsided only after Sinai took the opportunity to remind his fellow panelists that in economics, discourse and disagreement often go hand in hand. "If we laid all the economists from end to end," he said, "they would not reach the same conclusion." That was one point on which even...
Moreover, we agree with Mr. Singer that we were in error in attempting to interrupt the sacred forum of a Harvard classroom. We offer our most humble apologies to the entire university, and even to the threatened heritage we are trying to uphold. Sometimes, in our zeal, we go too far. We hope our jubilant "disruption" did not tarnish the great honor we hoped to bestow upon the award recipients...
...chain reaction of rage and indignation followed months of mounting protest. Ever since newly elected President Jacques Chirac announced on June 13 that his government would interrupt a three-year moratorium and carry out a "final" series of up to eight tests between September and May, France had found itself the target of widespread international criticism, consumer boycotts and formal protests from more than 20 governments. Chirac's "irrevocable" decision has been opposed even by some 60% of the French public, and his standing in the polls slid to a low point of 36%, largely because of the testing issue...
...play titled Miss Margarida'sWay, adopting the person of a tyrannicalteacher. When a professor in the classroom next tothem began banging on the door in anger, Brownmerely incorporated the situation into herperformance. Flying to the door, she proceeded togive the startled professor a verbaltongue-lashing for daring to interrupt the class...