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Even in The Crimson, sports were a major item. Instead of being relegated to the back page, at least one sports story ran on the front page every day. The writing was fresher and more colorful in 1942. Witness a paragraph about the 1941 Harvard-Yale football game, which Harvard...
...incarcerated souls, states have poured $30 billion into construction in the past 10 years. This year they will spend $7 billion more, while the Federal Government will plow $2 billion into a system that is demanding 1,100 new beds every week. After Medicare, corrections is the fastest-growing item in most state budgets, eating into scarce funds earmarked for health, education, transportation and social services...
...Russia angst is one of the simple pleasures of life. But these days it is the one item in oversupply. According to a report by the Cherepovets Regional Scientific Methodological Center for the Study of Social Problems, 80% of the residents of the city, about 230 miles north of Moscow, are in a constant state of heightened irritability. The proportion experiencing alarm and depression is 70%; agitation and anxiety for no clear reason, 61%; a sense that life is meaningless, 42%. Thoughts of suicide have increased 20-fold. It might be called the "inside story" of reform...
...that abolished individual commissioners' spending authority over road projects in favor of a common fund to be governed by the entire commission. Since the four white holdover commissioners voted as a bloc, Presley, a 67-year-old retired school administrator, discovered that he had no say over the largest item in the county budget. He had become a second- class commissioner...
...Everybody says it's this welfare business that got us into this mess, defining welfare as the problem of blacks and Hispanics. The second biggest item in the Connecticut budget, around $700 million, is nursing-home care as required by Medicaid. When people talk welfare, what they don't understand is you're talking Medicaid. My state health commissioner says 80,000 children here are identified as having lead poisoning. This year's budget includes an additional $500,000 in funds for lead-poisoning detection, prevention and treatment. Is that welfare, or is it 80,000 sick kids...