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...public schools. The Reagan Administration was on the losing side of all three disputes. Denouncing the court's "fastidious disdain for religion," Secretary of Education William Bennett complained that the latest rulings will make it "vastly more difficult to provide education service to some of America's neediest schoolchildren." Bennett's view echoed the lament of dissenting Chief Justice Warren Burger, who wrote in the New York case that "it borders on paranoia to perceive the Archbishop of Canterbury or the Bishop of Rome lurking behind programs that are just as vital to the nation's schoolchildren as textbooks...
...flood of immigrants, which includes thousands seeking professional and business careers, provides plenty of work for honest lawyers, who can earn $70,000 a year or more and who often contribute free legal services to the neediest. Some are respected human rights attorneys, like Miami's Ira Kurzban, who besides conducting his regular private practice has given much time free to defend Haitian boat people. Complains A.I.L.A. Executive Director Warren Leiden: "There's a bad rap against immigration attorneys...
...addition to the biannual fasts for hunger, which are directed at the world's neediest areas, the committee directs the yearly bicycle Ride For Life, held during the summer...
Kerry's statements last week charging that the Reagan Administration had sacrificed the welfare of the nation's "neediest citizens" for a "bloated" defense budget revealed his penchant for speaking out on national issues...
Paul McDermott, the owner of a public relations firm in Boston, has volunteered to collect more than 1000 toys for the Boston Children's Service, a central organization which helps Boston's neediest children...