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That attitude was underscored by a surprise decision on welfare reform. Although Carter had made a major campaign point of prompt reform, he dashed that prospect with the curious explanation that the welfare mess "is worse than we thought." Several options for revamping welfare had been prepared by HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and debated in five White House meetings over the past month, but none of them was acceptable to Carter essentially because they all cost too much money...
Koch, who thinks that the group's poems were "wonderful," hopes that his book will prompt other workshops in other homes-and not just as therapeutic busywork. Argues Koch: "As therapy it may help someone to be a busy old person, but as art and accomplishment it can help him to be fully alive. It was cheering to find such a lot of life and strength in the nursing home. I hadn't known that there was so much passion...
...strangle you?") Goretta places himself in the tradition of modern French, not Swiss, filmmakers. He is certainly more subtle and less pretentious than Alain Tanner, though as yet he has not been as widely received in this country. Perhaps sufficient interest will be stirred by this film to prompt more screenings of his first two features, Le Fou (1970) and The Invitation...
...them it is not clear what Carter hopes to achieve, especially because only a handful of the world's countries could ever qualify for the U.S. human rights seal of approval. The policy also seems inconsistent to many because U.S. officials have explained that security considerations could prompt Washington to exempt some human rights offenders from penalties...
British philosopher Edmund Burke once said that the study of law "renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources." In the U.S., 30,000 students per year now graduate from the nation's 164 accredited law schools, and many go on to become powerful influences in government and business as well as law. If they carry with them the virtues that Burke commended, it is largely due to the men and women who have taught them. Some such figures are already legends-Paul Freund of Harvard, for example, or Philip Kurland of Chicago...