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This kind of self-help program is only a beginning. Secretary Sullivan's emphasis on individual responsibility is only a beginning. After decades of nothing but beginnings, governments at all levels need to put more effort into bridging the gap between black and white health...
Though the practical results of Thompson's experiment are meager so far, other states -- like Ohio, Arkansas and Kansas -- are experimenting with economic incentives of their own. And under the influence of a Republican Administration that prefers self-help to government assistance, such ideas are likely to gain momentum...
Clarence Thomas is considered a conservative today because of the context, and the context is that for the past 25 years civil rights organizations have focused one-dimensionally on our oppression and demanded redress based on that. Well, here comes a man in 1991 who stands for self-help, and so he is anathema. The principle of self-reliance seems to devalue victimization as a source of power. I don't think it necessarily does, but it seems to. And so Thomas seems to be against the interests of black people merely by standing for self-reliance...
...described his inner conflicts, calling himself a child of hatred and love, of malign neglect and compensating family attention, of painful encounters with white racism and the healing guidance of an order of Irish Catholic nuns. The President could hardly have picked a nominee whose early life better demonstrates self-help, Horatio Alger and Booker T. Washington combined in one man's struggle...
Fire in the Belly is that rare thing: a literate and lyrical self-help book. Like Bly, who uses a Grimm brothers' myth as his framework, Keen takes up the ancient theme that each man is on a spiritual journey, a quest for the grail of manhood. Bly's book is an original song of the road, a literary Walkman piping background music for the journey. Keen attempts to provide a rough road map for the trip, advising the spiritual traveler how to avoid the dead ends of combative machismo and the blind alleys of romantic obsession...