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...more than smoke and mirrors, a lot more than simply awarding the middle class a tax break at the expense of the rich. Don't say we can't find the money to do what must be done, Cuomo continues, it's a matter of priorities -- an outright theft of Harkin's nonspecific field-of-dreams answer to how he'd fund his "new New Deal." Still, says Cuomo, I can't run without a budget; but then again it would be "presumptuous" to call off those who are trying to draft...
According to Jeanette Collier, there are waysof discouraging low-income parents from choosingcertain schools. "I know of instances where parentliaisons would be outright rude to mothers ofchildren who lived in low-income areas," she says...
...long isolated even from the rest of the communist world, held democratic elections last year, but its government has been unable to forge any economic system to replace the shattered communist structure. The country is the only one in Eastern Europe threatened not just by food shortages but by outright starvation...
News reports of violence in Israel, though, are not outright lies. The intifada exists. Palestinians do throw stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli targets, stab Israeli soldiers and civilians, and--increasingly--shoot and kill Israeli settlers travelling in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli military does respond with arrests and occasionally with beatings and bullets. Israeli settler groups have recently taken to vigilante acts of vandalism against Palestinians...
Roiling these backwaters are two powerful, charismatic figures, Raphael Hunter, an outright scoundrel, and Albion Pugh, who is more of a chronic liar and gifted fabulist. Both men are effortlessly successful with women: Ramsay loses his wife to Hunter and a beloved cousin to Pugh. He envies Pugh's "capacity to mythologise existence . . . his charm and his whatever it was he had instead of genius...