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...they so poor? I can see my neighbor asking as visions of feckless idlers dance before his narrowed eyes. Ah, that is a question white folks would do well to ponder. Consider, for a start, that African Americans are more likely to be disabled (illness being a famous consequence of poverty) or unemployed (in the sense of actively seeking work) and far less likely to earn wages that would lift them out of the welfare-eligibility range...
...left with no answer for it all. Some will only shrug their soldiers and tip their snifters. But others will continue to ponder the mysteries of the Yale game, remembering the words of the late Professor George Lyman Kittredge '82, "There must be something to this Yale game, they do it every year...
...AMERICA'S WEALTHY spend millions of dollars on unneeded medical care, as the stinging inadequacies of our health care system go uncorrected by milquetoast politicans, The poor ponder their choice: death by anecdote or by the numbers...
...past week, Harvard Law students have gathered to the spot where they usually watch "L.A. Law," to observe Judge Clarence Thomas undergo scrutiny by the Senate Judiciary Committee, an event that has made many of them ponder the judicial nomination process, the interaction of law and politics, and the intertwining of politics and race. In fact, Black students at Harvard Law School and at other law schools were interested enough to organize a panel discussion, to be held tonight, on Thomas's nomination...
...dramatic a change that is in the nature of Big Power relationships is now up for discussion by the President and his men. On the waters of Kennebunkport, Bush and his National Security Adviser, Brent Scowcroft, ponder "the new rationality," where facts will not be obliterated by rigid ideology. White House planners are anticipating a reemergence of Christianity in Russia, bringing with it a moral framework that has long been absent from Soviet political life...