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Labor Secretary Robert Reich -- shocking most of the Administration -- dared both Democrats and Republicans to match the GOP's Monday proposal to curtail welfare benefits with drastic cuts in "corporate welfare," his term for billions of dollars inbusiness tax credits and subsidies. The address to the moderate Democratic Leadership Council had originally been billed as the last of Reich's triptych on "the anxious middle class." But Reich, apparently reacting to the election results and the new GOP attack on welfare policy, delivered a tirade against what he identified as $225 billion in tax benefits for particular industries. "Since...
...think my music relates to Philip Glass and Steve Reich at all," says Nyman, referring to the two American pioneers of Minimalism, "but it originated from knowing their music. A composer builds on the tradition that's already established. Bach listened to Vivaldi, Vivaldi listened to Corelli, and the roots go back to Monteverdi. There's a common language or attitude...
...again in the War Room to unleash the comedic genius held in check by uptight Captain Mandrake and the Boy Scout president. His Dr. Strangelove is the crazed head of the American weapons program, apparently because he considers it the closest modern equivalent to his beloved Third Reich. Strangelove holds the audience in thrall as he goes further over the top with every line, straining in his wheelchair to extract himself from the death grip of his own right hand, a powerful character actor in its own right. This is the classic Sellers--black leather glover a demonic twinkle...
Labor Secretary Robert Reich accepts Murray and Herrnstein's expectation that a technological society will give its highest pay to people who have mastered its complex tasks but rejects their scenario of a genetically determined class structure. "There is a great deal of experimental data showing that education and training have significant effects on future earnings," says Reich. "I'm afraid ((their ideas)) will give solace to those in our society who are looking for every excuse to do less and less for those who are less fortunate...
...poverty line last year -- defined as an income of $14,763 for a family of four -- climbed to more than 39 million, or 15% of the nation's population. Worse, median income continued to decline, while the inequality between high- and low-income families increased. Labor Secretary Robert Reich openly showed concern that the U.S. was in danger of becoming a "two-tiered society." There was a smidgen of good news at week's end: new figures showed an unemployment rate of 5.9% -- the lowest in four years...