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...produced only modest improvements in employment and earnings when tried by various states during the '80s. The chances of large-scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs out there, in the long term, it is just going to be self-defeating...
...second game, senior Tom Hurley picked up the slack and shut down the Tiger attack as Harvard turned the tables...
...pass the war eating, snoozing and making out with the local ladies. The comedy in MEDITERRANEO is as languorous as the climate, and its point -- that most of the world's troubles arise when people are up and doing -- is agreeable if facile. The only stirring aspect of this slack, predictable movie is the fact that it won this year's foreign-film Oscar. There is something wrong with a system that rewards a movie as negligible as this with anything more than indifference -- especially in a year when Raise the Red Lantern was a nominee and Europa, Europa...
...Apple parades the usual assortment of acts. There are horse tricks, clowns, acrobats and a band. This array has changed surprisingly little in two hundred years. In 1770, Philip Astley, a skilled equestrian who could ride balanced on his head, brought together in one ring "Chinese Shadows, Tumbling, Slack-Rope Vaulting, Egyptian Pyramids" and a clown named Burt. Flocks of Londoners paid a shilling to see the show, the first modern circus...
...when you're ranked number one in the country, you can slack off for a while...