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...they? Imagine going to college while raising one or more children. On top of that, add all the stresses of poverty: the constant scrounge for cheap food; the total reliance on public transportation; the continual search for inexpensive clothing, child care and housing. Then add welfare's new requirement that you work 20 hours a week. It's tough. Only the most tenacious supermoms can meet all these demands...
Moscow's media corps scrambled for its medical dictionaries Tuesday, in search of the meaning of "asthenic." That was the term chosen by the Kremlin to describe Boris Yeltsin's condition, in explaining why he's canceled all travel plans and checked in to a sanatorium for two weeks. He's already taken 47 vacation days this year...
...creamy black-and-white read white: white bread, pasty white skin, whites-only neighborhoods, the last decade of white-male culture and, yes, the white sheets of the Ku Klux Klan. For color read colored, as in "colored people" and other oppressed minorities--artists seeking free expression, women in search of the apocalyptic orgasm...
...from what most people envision when they think of independent film: Matt Damon smoking cigars at a Miramax Oscar party. Since I had long been curious about the unsung breadth of no-budget filmmaking--the new American folk art?--off I went to the IFFM in search of cinema's slush pile...
...says personal conduct is not grounds for impeachment, our Commander in Chief put our country at risk [NATION, Oct. 5]. He was AWOL, both physically and mentally, on the public's time. He violated his allegiance to the country. I find it offensive that our President had to poll-search instead of soul-search before he would grudgingly and belatedly apologize to the voting public. He keeps repeating that he wants to do the job the people elected him to do. After years of part-time duty, he is aware, at least when it's convenient, that he has leadership...