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...cautionary tale about entrusting the free market with the task of caring for the very poor. Connecticut's welfare administrators, swept up in the national tide of reform, decided last year to inject a little private enterprise into their tired bureaucracy. They awarded a $12.8 million contract to Maximus Inc., based in McLean, Va., to put a shine on a state program that pays for child care for working welfare recipients. But within months Maximus found its operations in the kind of disarray it usually takes government years to achieve. More than 10,000 of the 17,000 bills submitted...
...after," says Bernard Picchi, an analyst of growth stocks for Lehman Brothers, who estimates the potential market at more than $20 billion a year. Private firms have also been assigned the kind of front-line, person-to-person tasks they have not had in the past. In Milwaukee, Wis., Maximus has been given traditional caseworker duties for part of the city, taking welfare applications and supervising recipients in state-mandated work assignments...
This year, in addition to two revised volumes of Aristophanes' plays and what Fulton describes as a more-accessible version of Homer, the Loeb plans to introduce new editions of works by more obscure Latin authors, including the Roman social critics Valerius Maximus and Aelianus and the writer Chariton...
...waves. It was radio Monica every day and TV-talk-show Monica every night. Monica made every morning's paper and the cover of the weekly magazines. Like an endless D-day announcement, she rippled across the other famous zipper, in Times Square. But if you craved Monica maximus, there was only one place for you. On the Web it was all Monica all the time...
...Matt Hale, "pontifex maximus" of the World Church of the Creator (WCC)--a "white racialist religion"--does not shrink from the word "hate." Hale is not bashful about being listed on Hatewatch...