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...refuse. But he too has seen that putting people to work is not enough. Since teenage mothers form the hard core of the welfare population, consuming $34 billion in benefits a year, and are the least likely to climb out of poverty, he has made teen-pregnancy prevention a pillar of his program. He has invited states to cut off additional payments to women who have children while on the dole, a hotly controversial measure dubbed the "family...
Verghese makes indelible narratives of his cases, and they read like wrenching short stories told in Bobbie Ann Mason plainsong. Take Will Johnson, say, the dignified pillar of his church and his community, who contracts AIDS through a blood transfusion and then passes it on to his devoted wife, the two of them ending up frightened and alone in a huge medical center, reading The Magic Mountain to each other. Or Vickie, the chattery, brawling woman from the trailer park who gets infected by her husband and comes at last to feel that AIDS has given her a purpose...
Lloyd Cutler, venerable pillar of the Washington establishment, was tapped by President Clinton to take control of the increasingly ominous Whitewater affair as interim White House counselor. Cutler, who held the same position for Jimmy Carter, emphasized that he would take the job for no more than 130 days and would serve without...
Sullivan was not a celebrity in the traditional sense. She was a friend and inspiration to many, a pillar of the homeless community and a constant presence in Harvard Square for the last 15 years...
...Dunster House during reading period and decided to stay for dinner. On this particular night, as part of the dining service's "visiting chefs series," the culinary staff of pillar House, a local gourmet restaurant, was making dinner. Dunsterites were asked to arrive at the dining hall at six in "neat attire." As might have been expected, the sophomores over-dressed. The food was better than Turkey Tettrazini has ever been, and each place setting was equipped with four--count'em: one, two, three, four--forks. There was a seafood flatula stuffed with fat shrimp, and salad made from what...