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...three-strikes proposal, however, will affect only several hundred federal inmates each year. "We hope the states follow suit," says a Clinton aide, an inefficient course that could bankrupt those that do. In California, a three- strikes provision would double the incarcerated population, require 20 new prisons and swell the current $2.8 billion corrections-department budget by about $2 billion. "We can't afford it," says John Vasconcellos, chairman of the state assembly's Ways and Means committee. "There would be no California left, except for the police and prison state...
...intelligence in the process. Sometimes the slow triplets--TKP loved to play triples, for some reason--even conceal a useful, if cynical, epigram: "In all events considerations reach a point where resignation seems a way of getting everything you need..." introduces, mildly enough, a song whose chorus is a swell of despair. "I find/Words/Fail...
...welfare really so out of control? The recent recession helped swell the number of households getting Aid to Families with Dependent Children, the largest component of welfare, by 33% since 1989, to nearly 5 million. And most people's reliance on welfare is transitional. If patterns hold, half of today's recipients will be off the rolls within two years. Just 2% collect checks for more than a decade...
...weekend White House health adviser Ira Magaziner sat down to write 150-odd changes into the 239-page draft that was widely leaked two weeks ago. One sample: to reassure women's groups, the Administration put obstetricians and gynecologists with the "primary-care physicians" whose numbers it wants to swell, rather than with the "specialists" whose ranks it intends to thin. Magaziner expects to make about as many more changes in each of the three or four remaining weeks between Clinton's speech and the submission of a "last and final" draft bill to Congress...
...senior command. Combat units in the Army and Marines are made up mostly of enlisted personnel without the same opportunities. Some women do argue that any female who meets the physical requirements for combat units should be able to volunteer, but there is no sign of a ground swell. Captain Melea Riley, who commands a training battalion including both men and women at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, says, "I have never come across a woman who said she would like to be in a combat infantry unit." Cornum, the bemedaled flight surgeon, now back at Fort Rucker, Alabama, confirms that...