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Welfare recipients and social activists said that homelessness, alcoholism, and unemployment were rampant in Cambridge and suggested that increased welfare benefits would help eliminate these problems...
...blacks to gain jobs and admission to schools for which they are under-qualified, while cheapening the achievements of those who could have succeeded without preferential treatment. Social programs pushed by the civil rights establishment often aggravate the problems they are supposed to solve. The crises of the ghetto--rampant crime, wanton violence, the high school dropout rate, illegitimate births--can no longer be attributed simply to white racism, nor can they be solved simply with more money from Washington. Blacks must take primary responsibility for the "social pathologies" that ail their communities...
...essays, broad-ranging in content as well as in presentation, are collected under three headings. Part I, "Seeing Signs," initiates one into the underworld of hidden meanings, exposing the rampant process of fabrication in which symbols are manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan...
Strict rent control--the single most important force in shaping Cambridge's population--could die a quick death. Rampant conversion of low- and moderate-income housing into Yuppified condominiums, a trend characteristic of the 1970's, could take rent control's place. If the council's composition changes significantly, Cantabs could see real estate developers gobbling up more and more of the city's precious land...
About 20,000 to 30,000 undocumented aliens currently reside in the greater Boston area. Most come from Central American nations seen as El Salvador, where sporadic violence and poverty run rampant...