Word: reporter
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Cambridge Mayor Francis H. Duehay '55 says the consequences of the new cutoffs became clear to him recently when a homeless man came up to him with a disturbing report...
Lisa Dodson, a fellow at the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute and co-author of a report on welfare in Cambridge and Boston, blames the lack of interest in DTA workshops on the program's futility rather than the clients' bad habits...
...your report on Citibank's close relationship with Raul Salinas, brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas [BUSINESS, Dec. 14], there were a few points I did not understand. You said Raul Salinas' wife, using an alias, carried cashier's checks to Citibank Mexico City. Since these were for very large sums of money, I should think someone in Citibank's private-banking unit would have asked immediately about the origin of that money. Further, you noted that once Citibank had the funds, "no documents linked that money to Salinas." That shows an extraordinary amount of trust on Salinas' part...
...well. Societies that value boys more highly than girls, including China and India, are already out of balance; this could tip the scales even further. Such an outcome is unlikely in the U.S., where surveys show that equal numbers of parents want girls as boys. But the same polls report that Americans believe an ideal family has a boy as the oldest child. Boys often end up being more assertive and more dominant than girls, as do firstborn children; skewing the population toward doubly dominant firstborns could make it even harder to rid society of gender-role stereotypes...
...Washington the talk of the town this week will probably be VANITY FAIR's look inside the tormented saga of BILL and HILLARY CLINTON's marriage. GAIL SHEEHY's 21-page report examines the psychological underpinnings of the First Couple's frequently anguished relationship. Among the highlights is a rare interview with Dorothy Rodham, Hillary's mom, who sheds light on the First Lady's seemingly superhuman stoicism: "She is a very sensitive person. But she is able not to overemotionalize it...She doesn't go into one of these horribly overwrought kinds of tizzies." Adds Mom: "That...