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...into the labor force through what is known as "workfare" programs. New York University professor Lawrence Mead, a conservative advocate of welfare reform, has dubbed this approach the "New Paternalism." New Jersey, for example, has passed a carrot-and-stick bill that denies extra payments to single mothers who bear children while on the dole; on the other hand, it allows them to keep their benefits if they marry, and it contains incentives for them to earn outside income and continue their education. Wisconsin's Republican Governor Tommy Thompson has pushed through a program that docks payments to teenage parents...
...almost certain to set off a new inflationary spiral, raise the federal deficit and slow the flagging economy. Even so, most Germans backed the strike because they were angry -- embittered by the swelling cost of unification, furious over rising taxes and indignant at being asked to bear too big a share of aid to the former communist countries in the East. And the anger will not soon subside. Other unions, in the metal, printing and construction trades, will ride the wave of discontent to demand similar increases to offset tax hikes linked to German unification. They probably will...
...champ is CBS'S IN MY DAUGHTER'S NAME. Donna Mills plays a woman whose daughter is raped and murdered. The sleazebag is acquitted on an insanity defense so ludicrous that the mental institution where he is sent lets him go. This is too much for Mom to bear, so she tracks down the guy and shoots him -- then has to stand trial herself. It's overwrought and unbelievable, but watchable because of Mills, who agonizes beautifully, down to her last unkempt strand of hair...
...SCHEME AT&T ANNOUNCED LAST WEEK A blessing or a blight? Those who can't bear to be out of touch will love the company's new EasyReach 700 service, which gives subscribers a lifelong telephone number that is assigned to the person, not to a particular phone line. Those who think the telephone is already too intrusive will probably want to reach out and touch someone with a baseball...
Brown's star attacker senior Brian Lowe received the Ivy Player of the Year award, and the Bear's fabulous freshman Greg Rozycki go Rookie of the Year...