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...HUCTW's demonstration were far morebellicose. Union members protested outsideMassachusetts Hall, followed administrators to aretreat at the Academy of Arts and Sciences inCambridge and marched in front of President NeilL. Rudenstine's Elmwood Avenue home...
...immediately after his death in 1993. That night, then-White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, Hillary Rodham Clinton's chief of staff Margaret Williams and aide Patsy Thomasson were in Foster's office, reportedly searching for a suicide note. They say they removed nothing. But Secret Service guard Henry O'Neill has told Senate investigators that he saw Ms. Williams leaving Foster's suite carrying "files" or "folders on top of each other." ( Williams, who denies this, has passed two polygraph tests.) Says Ratan: "The Republicans' big objective this week is to show that the Clintons were involved in some...
Other social scientists were incredulous. "Her work contradicted everything that had come before," says Sheldon Danziger, a public-policy professor at the University of Michigan. As experts scratched their head, most politicians salivated. O'Neill had confirmed a "silver bullet" solution to a vexing social problem. Only New Jersey's Republican Governor, Christine Whitman, courageously refused to endorse O'Neill's conclusions, preferring to wait for the results of a larger and more objective investigation...
That study, a five-year inquiry by a group of Rutgers University researchers, has now produced its first in-depth report of the family-cap policy. It directly contradicts O'Neill's findings. After closely monitoring 4,428 mothers--2,999 who were penalized if they had more children while on welfare and a control group of 1,429 who were not--the Rutgers team says there is "no reduction in the birthrate of welfare mothers attributable" to the family cap. The dissonance between O'Neill and Rutgers is largely explained by three factors: a general decline in births...
What does O'Neill say of the Rutgers work? "There are lots of ways to look at data, and I haven't seen their report," she says, although a copy was sent to her last week. Charles Murray, who glowingly accepted O'Neill's work when it first appeared, now says, "I never thought some small family-cap disincentive would work. I think the key to what's happening here is the growing stigma that's attaching to illegitimacy across the population." The Heritage Foundation's Robert Rector, who more than anyone else used O'Neill's work to urge...