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...uproar alone. Not that he's sheepish. After Reaganites discovered his 1984 book Losing Ground, which said poverty programs actually worsened the problems of the poor, he became the sociologist liberals loved to hate. More recently he introduced himself into the debate on welfare reform by insisting that unwed motherhood, not joblessness, was the key problem. His solution was to get rid of welfare altogether. Murray says when he and his co-author started work on The Bell Curve, "((Herrnstein)) said to me, 'You know, we're the only two people in America who can write this book because they...
...also to be admired for her tenacity in forcing the Times to yield to her demands to combine both motherhood and a career. Very few women quit a major metropolitan newspaper to have children and find themselves offered a posh spot on the op-ed page instead...
Hispanic females, late teens and already older than Eve, seek communal sisterhood. Motherhood we had forced upon us years...
...revolution/ I want to die for something," she sings on Revolution. Night in My Veins celebrates quickie sex. But the album's most intensely felt moment comes on I'm a Mother (Hynde's two daughters are 11 and 9), a feisty rebuttal to soft images of motherhood: "I understand blood/ I understand pain/ There can be no life without it," she sings. Hynde is living proof that even for punks, life doesn't have...
...vindicated Quayle's Murphy Brown salvo.The proof is in his own book. It's not just that Bush and Quayle lost the election. It's not just the current emphasis on welfare as the source of all evil in the underclass. (If welfare is the cause of single motherhood and cutting off welfare is the solution, what does Murphy Brown have to do with anything?) Even Quayle now distances himself from the cultural...