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...immigrant bashing, the welfare bill also threatens to cut off assistance to thousands of legal immigrants. Despite Clinton's appeals for employers to hire former welfare recipients it is highly dubious that the job market can absorb such a great influx of unskilled or marginally skilled workers. The precious little funds that have been allotted for job training are woefully inadequate. And the true victims of the welfare bill are children--a study by the Urban Institute and an internal report by the HHS estimate that one million children will be pushed into poverty as a result...
Some old people become more upset about human foibles than they did when they were younger--part of getting ready to leave. For others, human idiocy becomes increasingly precious; they begin to see in the state of mind we will have in heaven. "What about heaven?" I said to Harold, who is ninety-four and lives in the VA Hospital in Tucson. He said, "Memory is heaven." The physicist emeritus tottering across the campus of Cal Tech through the hazy sunshine occasionally chuckles to himself. Yet it has happened to many others, and to you, too, Galway--when illness...
...general. They bother me in much the same way it bother me when playoff ticket land in the laps of casual fans. I have no real grounds to be annoyed, but still, there's an undeniable elitist suspicion that if people don't have to work hard for precious things, they won't appreciate what they're getting...
After enduring nearly a month of guilt, Graham says, he confessed his infidelity to Zamora, a student at nearby Crowley High School. She told Graham, he says, that her rival must die. "When this precious relationship we had was damaged by my thoughtless actions," he later told police in a written statement, "the only thing that could satisfy her womanly vengeance was the life of the one that had, for an instant, taken her place." The couple's plan was simple, he said: he would break Jones' neck, and weight the corpse with barbells before sinking it in Joe Pool...
...still more fundamental reason why Clinton rejected class-based politics. As part of his attempt to unify the American people, he argued that it was important to protect such programs as Medicare and Medicaid and those that support education and the environment because they preserved and protected precious American values. Education meant opportunity; Medicare and Medicaid fulfilled our responsibility to one another; protecting the environment was protecting our community...