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...flood of homeowners and businesses leaves behind a shell of the previous neighborhood. Property values decline, and schools lose the tax revenue needed to provide even the most basic education. After whites flee, they thwart all attempts to re-integrate neighborhoods through scattered-site housing or school choice proposals...
...lives off bettors from Omaha, Nebraska. And although most Illinois casinos attract few out-of-staters, East St. Louis is an exception. On two recent nights some 70% of the Casino Queen's patrons were white, many of them from across the river in Missouri. "Casino gambling is a shell game," explains Earl Grinols, a University of Illinois economics professor, "attracting dollars from one person's pocket to another and from one region to another...
...MOMENTS THAT HAVE MATTERED most in Bob Dole's life, he has found himself alone. He was alone when he charged up a rocky hill to a German machine-gun nest, to be torn apart by an artillery shell. That experience took him to places where no one could help him. The surgeons could do only so much. His mother, who would have done anything for him, couldn't do anything when she came upon him hanging from the rafters of their garage by his shattered arm, trying to make it work again...
...understand?" McDougal asked. He explained he wanted the Clintons out of Whitewater. It was just a shell, but he was planning to do some real estate development and he needed a vehicle. Whitewater, he said, had a track record; it had good credit; it had tax losses to shelter any future profits. Susan felt sorry for him, realizing how much he needed this. Then she mentioned that she hadn't actually signed the power of attorney herself; a friend had. Jim's spirits soared. "Call Hillary and void it," he said...
What the Panorama interview made plain was that in ministering to the needy, Diana was helping herself. She had lost her emotional roots as a child of six when her mother bolted from Earl Spencer. Later, confronted with a shell of a marriage, Diana threw her enormous energies into the world of therapy. Often without publicity, she worked with battered wives and abused children...