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During a season blessed with such saccharin tidbits as the Globe's heartwarming stories about people who've sent in $25 to the Globe Santa every year since 1908 and the Times's heartwrenching neediest cases stories, it was nice for us cynics in the audience to come across the Real Paper's "Real Santa" and his "Greediest Cases" list...
...Mark Zanger, who wrote the Real Paper article, pointed out, there wouldn't be any neediest cases at all if the greediest cases didn't hog everything. So the Realp piece wasn't really cynical--just showing the other side of the story...
...meal in their homes. So far the Subcommittee on Aging, which has jurisdiction, has refused to even hold hearings on the Meals-on-Wheels bill. Furthermore, the committee has been forced by politics to write the bill in a way which precludes it from reaching the neediest eligible participants. Preference for funding would go to organizations with volunteer labor. Such organizations are much more prevalent in middle- and upper-income areas, where people can afford to volunteer their time. In ghetto areas, few people have time to volunteer, and few suburbanites are willing to volunteer for ghetto work. Yet ghettos...
...City University regarded the pillage as "a Robin Hood-type of thing-steal from the rich and give to the poor." But the explanation that leans on real and perceived deprivation goes only so far. It is by no means clear that most of the looters were the neediest. There was an element of glee, perhaps of revenge, of a mob gone wild. Says Bard: "The looting had a quality of madness. I cannot believe that they cleaned out a store of prayer shawls and Bibles." Adds Ernest Dichter, a noted behavioral psychologist: "It was just like Lord...
Uneasy over the country's growing reputation as an Alpine penny pincher, the government recently won parliamentary support for a modest $80 million contribution to the World Bank to help the world's neediest nations. But an odd coalition of extreme left-and right-wing politicians launched a popular initiative against the proposal.When it came to a referendum last week, the Swiss resoundingly rejected the aid scheme, 713,855 to 550,557. The Tribune de Genève fretted that the outcome betrayed an "egoistic, isolationist trait in the Swiss character," but that hardly came as a surprise...