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Lackey, 20, is one of the 1,000 Milwaukee County welfare recipients who have been sent back to school since Republican Governor Tommy Thompson launched his Learnfare program in 1988. Learnfare is one of a spate of carrot-and-stick reforms intended to break long-term dependency on state and federal handouts. It is a bold behaviorist experiment seeking to prove that, given the right rewards and punishments, even the most underprivileged can become productive, self-reliant citizens. And if it works in Wisconsin, argues Thompson, 49, who is in his second four-year term, his plan...
Next time he has a quiet moment at 35,000 ft., he should put aside his briefing books long enough to sample a spate of recent articles and speeches that all say the same thing: Come home, America. Now that the Red Menace is history and the Emir of Kuwait is back on his throne, many of Bush's constituents would like him to do more to save their schools, hospitals, banks, jobs and pensions...
...spate of violent crimes, including the brutal, fatal stabbing of a feminist legal scholar studying at Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, led this spring to a heightened awareness of issues of safety in Cambridge...
...response to the recent spate of violent crimes in the Harvard community, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) has been distributing shrill alarms as a safety measure, University officials said...
...added that the recent spate of crime has had a definite effect on the sale of the alarms. "We might not have sold as many alarms if there had been not so much crime," she said...