Word: murrayism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consensus about putting welfare mothers to work was building, the debate was shifting again. The problem is not that too few single mothers are working, the conservatives are saying. The problem is that there are too many single mothers in the first place. To critics like Bennett, author Charles Murray, former Housing Secretary Jack Kemp and their allies in Congress, illegitimacy is the underlying cause of poverty, crime and social meltdown in the inner cities. Far better to discourage people from having children before they are ready, the conservatives argue, than to burden society with weaving the safety...
...finish at Amherst was a good way to end the season," freshman Megan Murray says. "It was a very respectable finish. It gives us something to build...
...Players : Alexis Boyle, Rosie Stovell, Megan Murray...
Vincent Li has decided to leave Dunster House to marry Fiona Murray, a tutor in environmental sciences, whom Li was accused of influnecing Liem to hire. Liem said that the two became romantically involved only after Murray was hired...
...Albert Murray, the black social critic, once wisecracked, "Sure we got our troubles, but if white folks could be black for just one Saturday night, they wouldn't never want to be white folks no more." Henry Louis Gates Jr. does not go nearly that far in Colored People (Knopf; 216 pages; $22), his memoir of growing up in a West Virginia mill town during the 1950s and '60s. But his beguiling elegy for the exuberant society blacks created for themselves under the veil of segregation provides one explanation of why few African Americans, even if they had the power...