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Your item listing the salaries of various heads of state [NOTEBOOK, June 7] said the President of Costa Rica earns $250,000 a year. That figure is completely off the mark. The yearly salary of Costa Rica's President amounts to $98,036--including an allowance for expenses. The President does not live in a house paid for by the government but in his private residence. In addition, all household expenditures are paid from his personal income. JAIME DAREMBLUM, AMBASSADOR Embassy of Costa Rica Washington...
...candidates want your support in the quadrennial straw poll--a voting exercise with the precision and meaning of a Ouija board that has taken on life-or-death significance for some candidates. To entice lever pullers, campaigns have bought scores of tickets ($25 a head), hauled supporters across the state on fleets of free air-conditioned buses, and bedecked the faithful with hats, shirts and stickers. The afternoon promises to be a toe-tapping jamboree as attendees gorge themselves on pulled pork and sweet corn, all the while listening to gospel and country music. George W. Bush is bringing...
...left the Senate in 1996, Bradley voted against the landmark welfare bill. Today Al Gore's lone challenger for the Democratic nomination is still speaking out against that reform. Welfare is "a disastrous system," Bradley recently told TIME, "but the way to deal with it is federal commitment and state experimentation, not the Federal Government washing its hands [of the problem]." Holding that view requires courage. In a survey commissioned by the G.O.P., 60% of those polled said they were less likely to vote for Bradley after hearing his position on welfare. If there's anyplace in America where people...
Certainly Lisa Van Riper didn't. Three years ago, her friend David Beasley, then the Republican Governor of South Carolina, gave the Greenville civic activist $200,000 of private money left over from his inaugural and asked her to help make the state's new work requirements for welfare recipients stick. Van Riper's mission: to persuade every church, synagogue and private civic group in the state to adopt one welfare family and guide it toward independence...
Today her private, nonpartisan foundation, Putting Families First, has become a national model. Nearly 900 groups statewide--from fundamentalist churches to liberal organizations--have signed on to help hundreds of families. The state department of social services recruits clients, 90% of them single mothers; the church or association puts together a team to help with everything from resumes to fixing a broken toilet to lining up free dental care. No one knew how the chemistry would work--or that the public-private partnership would help yield something valuable, even beyond a 65% drop in state welfare rolls...