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...engage citizens in the political process. Women also score better on the issues that cut close to home, among them welfare, health care and education. When it comes to the electorate's No. 1 concern -- the economy -- voters seem inclined to let women take a whack at the mess. "There's a feeling we should give women a chance," says Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at New York City's Baruch College. "They can't do much worse than the men." Certainly voters seem very receptive to the idea of women in high office. In a Times- Mirror Center poll...
From within as well as from without, alternative rock is an interesting jumble or a total mess, depending on your point of view. There is constant infighting among musicians as to who is really alternative and who is merely posing. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, quoted in Rolling Stone, says he feels the "duty to warn kids of false music that's claiming to be underground or alternative," while his band itself is roundly criticized for selling out. Rampant accusations of cheesiness from all sides give this kind of continuous conflict a kind of Maoist tone--no one is ever revolutionary...
...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...
Jean Conway, a 54-year-old Brown volunteer from Wilmington, Del., campaigned in Washington Square Park and attempted to help confused voters. She said workers were sent throughout the city to distribute special flyers designed to clear up the mess...
...data -- as well as the glory -- while Navy personnel were stuck with a limited role because they could receive only a tiny fraction of the vital information. As part of a plan for a sweeping reorganization of U.S. intelligence, CIA Director Bob Gates now says he will fix the mess so that all services have ready access to such intelligence data in the future...