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That assertion may well be voiced loudly during this year's presidential campaign after Wilson's new book, When Work Disappears: The World of the New Urban Poor, is published in September. Wilson says that it is "deliberately written to influence the widest possible audience" and that it takes dead aim at conservative Republican proposals for overhauling welfare, Medicare and other social programs. "I refuse to be intimated by the rhetoric of the Contract with America," says Wilson, who calls himself an unashamed liberal. "They have defined the terms of the debate, and I say their...
...study, which appeared in the April 20 British Medical Journal, found that the income gap was widest in the South. As hypothesized, the mortality rates for all causes of death and certain diseases were also highest in the South...
...restrain itself. For the past decades, the Korean peninsula has never ceased to resemble a barrel of gunpowder which could blow up any time. Bordering upon each other are the two countries, both claiming to be the true representative of the Korean people, between whom there exists the widest and oddest gap imaginable given a homogeneous race and an identical language...
...islands are all atolls, formed in a halfmoon shape from the reefs that grow around sunkenvolcanoes. The widest point of the capital of theislands, Majoro, is only 75 years in diameter...
...described rap as a legitimate expression of street culture, which deserves an outlet. "The test of any democratic society," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed column, "lies not in how well it can control expression but in whether it gives freedom of thought and expression the widest possible latitude, however controversial or exasperating the results may sometimes be ... We won't retreat in the face of threats of boycotts or political grandstanding...