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...Governor Jim Florio denounces the current welfare system as "morally bankrupt." Many state governments, meanwhile, are slashing benefits and throwing thousands off the rolls. "America has moved from a war on poverty to a war on the poor," says Yale University professor Theodore Marmor, co-author of America's Misunderstood Welfare State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get America Off the Dole | 5/25/1992 | See Source »

Vergonis said BSA misunderstood the flyer,saying the speakers are condemning the "writeliberals of the 1960s who portrayed Black as amodel of sexual liberation in order to advancetheir own political agenda...

Author: By Elie G. Kaunfer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minority Group Distributes Flyer Charging Injustices | 4/23/1992 | See Source »

...event's planners said yesterday thatthey originally misunderstood Malekoff'smotivations for setting the stipulations onseating and ticket sales. Vu said he is now awarethat Malekoff was only trying to help the councilensure planning for the event would not be toohurried and disorganized...

Author: By Mark W. Brown, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Council Will Go Ahead With De La Soul Event | 4/17/1992 | See Source »

...other hand, to be one of the U.S. Attorneys or FBI agents who for six years had tried and tried again to scratch the Teflon Don. Each time the elusive leader of the nation's most powerful crime family persuaded the jury he was nothing more than a misunderstood plumbing salesman. But this time the government's case looked perfect. The witnesses did not lose their memories on the stand. The tapes were clear. The underboss spilled the grim details. The jury was protected. "The Don is covered with Velcro," said the assistant director of the FBI's New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organized Crime: Wanted: A New Godfather | 4/13/1992 | See Source »

...Always always?" Perhaps the words are betterleft misunderstood...

Author: By J.c. Herz, | Title: A Band With a Mission--and a Bus | 3/5/1992 | See Source »

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