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...deteriorating inner-city schools--are getting worse. At the same time, government is becoming less, not more, interested in spending money to help break the cycle of poverty and crime. All of which has led John J. DiIulio Jr., a professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton, to warn about a new generation of "superpredators," youngsters who are coming of age in actual and "moral poverty,'' without "the benefit of parents, teachers, coaches and clergy to teach them right or wrong and show them unconditional love...
...money Washington is willing to send to the states and by putting limits on the number of years a welfare recipient can draw payments, the G.O.P. is testing the theory that if the poor know they are not automatically getting payments, they will lift themselves out of poverty. Democrats warn that, with caps and limits, the poor will be devastated. Counters Besharov: "Do a lot of states have Governors who want mothers sleeping on grates? No." Could it be that giving the poor less is a way of giving them more? Daniel Bell, professor emeritus of sociology at Harvard, speaks...
...Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a cheerful psychopath who is more trouble than he's worth. Sam also falls into distracting obsession with Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), and that's not good for him or for business either. She's a hustler whose excessive interest in furs and jewels would warn off a more worldly man. As would the fact that she leaves their wedding banquet to make a tearful call to the sleazy lover (James Woods) whom she never fully abandons...
...help him run. The next day, Powell met at his office in Alexandria with Republican Party chairman Haley Barbour, who talked favorably about a candidacy. But there were other voices just as determined to be heard. A group of conservatives called a press conference to blast Powell and warn him against running. Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed had done the same, via letter...
...knowingly passed on questionable information to the President and the Pentagon. The agency's new director, John Deutch, told stunned legislators that CIA officers had on occasion obtained and relayed information from Kremlin insiders whom the agency suspected of being double agents. The CIA did not properly warn U.S. national security officials that the information might be tainted; worse, the information may have prompted the expenditure of billions on unnecessary defense projects. "Devastating" and "inexcusable" were Deutch's assessments. He pledged an intensive effort to "reconstruct" the agency's spying operations...