To Comfort The Afflicted
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    Poor Immigrants: Asset Or Burden?

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    BY FROMA HARROP America’s fast-growing Latino population is famously hard working. It also has high rates for teenage pregnancy and dropping out of high school, two markers for poverty. Falling education levels should worry any country seeking to compete in the global economy. Are these poor immigrants “an asset or an albatross?” San Antonio Mayor […]

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    Return Of ‘The Contract With America’

    Columnists Arnold Hamilton - 0

    BY JOE CONASON The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the “Contract From America” – a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the “Contract With America” used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress. The question immediately raised by this news is […]

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    Masturbating On The Edge Of The Apocalypse

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    BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN It’s the merry laugh on the edge of the abyss. Christine O’Donnell, senatorial candidate with her “no hand jobs” program has cast an unfamiliar ray of sunshine over the surreal landscape of American politics. In terms of fun, this has been a bleak decade. Not since Monica Lewinsky eagerly confided to friends […]

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    Who Is Carl Paladino?

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    BY SUSAN ESTRICH The Republican nominee for governor of New York doesn’t spend a lot of time talking about himself, which is both good and bad. It’s good because, in truth, his surprise victory over the “establishment” favorite [and Conservative Party candidate] Rick Lazio had very little to do with his qualifications and agenda, and […]

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    Where Good Men [And Women] Die Old

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    BY FROMA HARROP There are few less-alike places in the continental United States than Ashley, ND, and New York City. But Ashley [population 882] has one remarkable thing in common with New York [population 8,363,710]. Its older residents enjoy longer and healthier lives than in most other parts of the country. Having spent some time […]

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