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...OPEC member helps bankroll its less well-off neighbors...
Though immersed in the metropolitan culture of France, Pissarro lived at an angle to it. He was not only an immigrant -he had been born and raised on the Caribbean island of St. Thomas, the son of a well-off storekeeper-he was also a Jew. In this sense he was twice a stranger in France, and his clan loyalty, his commitment to the tiny republic of the family, his extreme probity and political radicalism were connected, one may surmise, to his sense of outsidership. More than anything else, he loved painting...
...newspaper stories, TV shows and liberal critics in and out of Congress increasingly have portrayed the program as one that redistributes income from poor to rich-specifically by reducing benefits the needy have come to rely on while reserving the program's greatest tax savings for the already well-off. Implicit in much of this opposition commentary, at least in the Administration's view, is the premise that any such attempt is inherently unfair because the poor have a right to federal help financed by taxes that fall most heavily on the middle-class and affluent...
...that the disorder involves heavy guilt, compulsive risk-taking and the desire to be caught. Says Jon E. Gudeman, psychiatrist at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center: "Some feel unworthy and feel a need to be punished." Irene Stiver, a psychologist at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., says that many well-off patients in therapy admit to kleptomania, but only after several months of treatment. "It is the risk-taking," she says, "the excitement of getting away with something." Maurice Lipsedge, a consultant psychiatrist at Guy's Hospital in London, thinks shoplifting by women has a good deal in common...
...aftershocks of Park's murder. His puritanical law-and-order approach has included the arrest of some 30,500 alleged gangsters and hooligans and the firing of 8,000 bureaucrats for alleged corruption or inefficiency. At the same time, Chun appeals constantly to Korea's less well-off with populist rhetoric. Says he: "We have to usher in a new era by building a democratic welfare society. Everyone must be satisfied materially as well as spiritually...