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...Reich attracts both admirers and critics across the political spectrum. Andrew Kopkind writes in The Nation that the Reich-Clinton plan "does not touch the problem of a powerless, alienated and potentially disruptive work force." Conservatives, meanwhile, see Reich's call for more federal "investment" in education and infrastructure as merely an attractive new label for a bigger, more wasteful, more intrusive bureaucracy. Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prizewinning economist, predicts that the Reich-Clinton program "would destroy far more productive jobs than it would create, because it relies on more government spending and taxing." Jim Pinkerton, an iconoclastic Republican thinker...
...Reich-Clinton plan would also throw billions of dollars at new public- works projects without persuasively describing how it would keep the money from being wasted by lawmakers such as Senate Appropriations chairman Robert Byrd, who has made it his mission in life to pave his home state of West Virginia with federal office buildings and roads. Reich holds that "there is nothing wrong with being indebted so long as the borrowings are invested in means of enhancing our future wealth." But he agrees that some way must be found to "guard against pork-barrel spending...
...Some of Reich's critics target him personally as a "self-promoter" and "pamphleteer" -- in part, no doubt, out of resentment of his productivity and fame. These chafe many economics professors because Reich, often described as an economist, does not hold a degree in that subject. He received his degrees at both Dartmouth and Oxford in interdisciplinary studies -- history, philosophy, politics, economics -- and earned a law degree from Yale. Despite * his decade of teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Reich is not a tenured professor; nor, friends say, has he sought that title. With characteristic wit, he pens...
...Reich was born in 1946 with a rare condition later diagnosed as Fairbank's disease, in which the lower spine fuses and the upper legs don't grow properly. In June he had to undergo painful surgery on his hip joints; when he was a child, the condition and his size kept him from participating in sports. But he compensated by writing and illustrating his own books (starting at age six) and with music and humor and theater. He grew up in South Salem, New York, about 40 miles north of Manhattan, the son of Republican parents who owned...
...quick study and natural leader, Reich was elected student-government president at Dartmouth College. During the summers, he worked with inner-city youngsters, as an intern to Senator Robert Kennedy, as a campaign volunteer for Senator Eugene McCarthy. He met his future wife Clare Dalton, a Briton who now teaches law at Northeastern University in Boston, on his first day at Oxford. After returning from England and earning his law degree at Yale, Reich clerked for a federal appeals judge in Boston. He then worked for seven years in Washington, first as an assistant to Solicitor General Robert Bork, then...