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...local subscribers at the rate of 5,000 a day. But Bennett says Pacific Bell has been installing local service for only about 100 new AT&T customers a day, forcing him to scale back marketing efforts in the Golden State. New MCI subscribers have experienced similar delays. Jonathan Sallet, MCI's chief policy counsel, says PacBell takes an average of three weeks to switch on MCI customers in California, although PacBell switches on its own clients in seven days. Replies a spokesman for PacBell parent SBC: "We have spent $1.2 billion to fulfill our obligation to open our networks...
Shirley Eshelman is physically disabled, but she manages to work small miracles for her 12-year-old son Jonathan, who is emotionally disturbed and has learning difficulties. And she does so on a family income of just $241 a week. She stretches a $30-a-month grocery budget by planting a large vegetable garden outside her home in rural Middletown, Md., and by taking Jonathan to a food pantry where they volunteer in exchange for food. She sets aside money in meticulous expense ledgers for Jonathan's outings with a local teacher who teaches him socialization skills, and a little...
...Jonathan is one of 264,000 low-income, disabled children nationwide whose Supplemental Security Income benefits, averaging $424 a month, are being reviewed for possible termination. The reviews are being conducted under new rules, adopted in last year's overhaul of the welfare system, that significantly tighten the program's definition of disability. So far, 42% of children whose cases have been reviewed under the new rules nationally have been found ineligible; some started losing benefits last week. Jonathan's review ended with a request for him to submit further evidence of his disability--a sign, his mother fears, that...
...Other Beltway's language does have the edge in one respect: informality. I felt no qualm about E-mailing "Hi Joel" to someone I had never met. ("Hi Jon," I E-mailed to Washington Post book critic Jonathan Yardley when he announced that he'd gone online, adding helpfully, "This is the proper form of salutation in cyberspace." Yardley answered, jokingly, "Dear Mr. Kinsley: This is the proper form of salutation in Washington.") The same informality applies to dress, which in this world--where style is set by barely socialized young computer geeks--has moved beyond the studied informality...
...Labor Secretary, Robert Reich couldn't get a buzz going if he'd crossed a picket line. Now he's the talk of the town for his bestselling memoir, Locked in the Cabinet. But the talk has turned decidedly sour since one reviewer, Jonathan Rauch, saw through the forest of short-guy jokes to find a book that was too good to be true. Writing in Slate magazine, Rauch found that Reich had cooked the raw material of Washington life into an unrecognizable stew of half-truths in which he comes off as morally superior...