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...district spans the spectrum from very poor people living in some of the poorest neighborhoods with very high degrees of infant morality and joblessness to some of the most affluent neighborhoods in the country, if not the world," says Brian O'Connor, a Kennedy staffer...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Eighth District: A Land of Legends | 2/25/1998 | See Source »

...most current definition of "love" appears in Webster's Third International Dictionary of 1993. It is the poorest definition to date, because it is the most fragmented. While one entry defines "love" as "the attraction based on sexual desire," another calls it "the affection and tenderness felt by lovers." This separation is grossly inadequate, for love is an integration, not an alternation, of desire and affection...

Author: By Jim Cocola, | Title: Redefining Love | 2/9/1998 | See Source »

...have to choose between their jobs and their children, the President proposed child care tax credits for working families and for businesses that provide child care for their employees. These proposals are crucial in helping ensure that welfare reform does not throw millions of our nation's poorest deeper into poverty...

Author: By Michael J. Passante, | Title: Clinton's Forgotten Agenda | 2/4/1998 | See Source »

Roughly speaking, the reporting and first-draft writing is done by the candidates, who number from about forty when a batch begins to try, to seven or eight when the most successful are elected editors. But as the poorest of them drop out or are dropped, the better ones are given more and more suggestions and assignments. If a candidate shows interest and industry, if he is accurate and reliable in writing up his news, and if he has any interest, intellectual, social, or athletic, which brings him into contact with some of the sources of College activity...

Author: By Michael Ryan, EDITED BY THE CRIMSON STAFF | Title: The First 100 Years | 1/24/1998 | See Source »

...knew something was wrong because just about everyone there was on welfare," says the sergeant known as Schoolboy, who was Blondie's nominal boss in "Five Squad," the detachment of plainclothes officers given the task of ridding the streets of drugs, or at least confining them to Philadelphia's poorest neighborhood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW COPS GO BAD | 12/15/1997 | See Source »

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