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...wedlock, and those children are four times as likely as the others to be poor. Unwed mothers average nearly 8 years on welfare, in ^ contrast to 4.8 years overall. "From the President on down, there has been an amazing shift in attitude," says Douglas Besharov, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Today everyone recognizes that dealing with births out of wedlock is the central issue of welfare reform, so much so that the President's draft plan makes dealing with illegitimacy the No. 1 priority...
...become too chummy with contributors or their party's political machine may turn corrupt, but candidates whose wealth enables them to win elections without engaging in the give-and-take of party activism may turn into testy, unbending legislators, a Congress of Perots. Says Norman Ornstein, a congressional scholar at the American Enterprise Institute: "Ideally, you want Congress to be a variegated group, people with diverse life experiences. You lose something if personal wealth becomes a criterion...
...rare case of agreement between the conservative Heritage Foundation and the White House, parts of a report on the Uruguay Round trade pact released by Heritage scholar Joe Cobb turned out to have been lifted almost word for word from an Administration study. When the lapse was uncovered, Heritage rushed out a new report with attributed quotations. Even so, Heritage maintains Cobb's "analysis and conclusions are entirely...
Hammond, 91, was a Rhodes Scholar. His manybooks on the classics include The City in theAncient World, Notes on the History of Sicily andAeneas to Augustus: A Beginning Latin Reader forCollege Students...
James is a Stride Rite scholar who has workedwith a variety of community organizations duringher years at Hravard, including PresidentClinton's Summer of Service program, theCorporation for National Community Service, YouthBuild and the Mission Hill program at PhillipsBooks House...