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After confronting the poverty of his state, LaBruzzo, in his esteemed capacity as a policymaker, offered just such a solution. Horrified that welfare recipients should have cell phones and cigarettes on the state??€™s dime, he is considering a law to pay willing women $1000 to undergo Fallopian tube ligation and effectively promote state-sponsored sterilization of poor women. The law would also include tax incentives for wealthier, more educated couples to have more children. To him, the root of the welfare crisis lies in poor people reproducing faster than those who are presumably more qualified to have...
...There exists a contingent of scholars and collectors that share the belief that a great deal of artists in China—being freed from the requirements of traditional art schools and the dictates of the state??€”have chosen to use their national identity, more than anything, as a selling point. To them, Yue Minjun’s smiling faces appear more Chinese-looking than is accurate; similarly, Wang Guangyi’s political pop paintings are seen as insincere and overly topical. Many Western critics, along with other Chinese artists, are bothered by the success of those...
...course, still-undefeated Chris Pizzotti is the Crimson’s actual quarterback. However, with a little luck, we could have watched Appalachian State??€™s Armanti Edwards marshal Harvard’s offense. The Heisman dark horse was recruited by Harvard, but he ultimately decided to spurn the Crimson for the chance to play on a slightly larger stage as a Mountaineer...
...between how much hospitals spend and how much the state reimburses. As one of the 10 largest health systems in the state, the Health Alliance currently receives over 700,000 patient visits a year—and that number is expected to increase in coming years. Representatives at the state??€™s Executive Office of Health and Human Services were not available for comment...
...James M. Shannon and Edward J. Markey. Kerry’s recent victory by more than thirty points is likely to be one of the closer races in the Commonwealth this election cycle. Republican John McCain has already conceded liberal Massachusetts to the Democratic nominee, Barack Obama, and the state??€™s politicians—notably Kerry, Kennedy, and Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78—have emerged as important surrogates for the Obama campaign. Cambridge’s other representatives—Representative Michael E. Capuano, State Senator Anthony D. Galluccio, and State Representative Alice...