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...second best in the world--for business. But despite his successes, San Francisco still has plenty of problems. Crime has made some streets dangerous even in the daytime. Public housing is a mess. The police department is fighting charges of corruption and abuse. And the poorer sections of the city desperately need jobs and development...
...foundation of all religious, economic and political systems, and the Simpson trial only reflects the superficiality of the times. It's the same old struggle: the rich and powerful manipulate us and blind the common citizen. It's the same old story: the poor and innocent get poorer. The rich--white or black--get richer. LOUIS ALEXANDER JIMANEZ Santa Monica, California...
...framing their attack in the terms of the Republican agenda that voters went for last year: smaller government, regulatory reform, budget cutting and property rights. In resource-dependent economies like Alaska and the Pacific Northwest, they are also stressing job creation. "Eventually,'' says Young, "the working class, the poorer people, will realize that [the Endangered Species Act] is saving crickets over saving babies...
...Medicare can not be sacrosanct. Moreover, it shouldn't be sacrosanct. Medicare is a program that takes money from working Americans--either through the special Medicare tax or through general taxes or through future payments on the national debt--and pays it to retirees. Many of these retirees are poorer than the average worker, but many are not. All are getting a far better deal from Medicare than today's workers will get when they retire, even if the inevitable reforms could be avoided, since current retirees were paying into the system during years when it cost far less...
...Martha's Vineyard. Brown is her word, used carefully and with mild amusement, because among the Massachusetts resort island's summering black aristocracy, light has always been right, and shadings of color are measured with precision. When West was a child, as she relates in The Richer, the Poorer (Doubleday; 254 pages; $22), her new collection of stories and reminiscences, her extended family included cousins "pink and gold and brown and ebony," and her light-skinned, lighthearted mother used to say, "Come on, children, let's go out and drive the white folks crazy...