Word: harshness
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...emerging black underclass. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, as a Johnson adviser in 1965, had the prescience to describe the "tangle of pathology" resulting from the breakdown of ghetto family life. But many liberals denounced his analysis as racist. In failing to address unpleasant realities, the Democrats handed conservatives harsh symbols -- from Reagan's "welfare queen" to the Bush campaign's Willie Horton -- with which to stoke white fury...
Born a slave in 1856, my grandfather was a farmer who loved learning. Despite poverty and racial oppression so harsh it seems almost unimaginable today, he found a way for his 16 children to get an education. After he died in 1933, my grandmother and the older children worked together to send the younger ones to college and professional schools. My dad, the baby of the family, graduated from Howard University's medical school. He went on to found the country's first black-run cancer-research center and publish ground- breaking studies about the disease's impact on black...
...works in Wisconsin, argues Thompson, 49, who is in his second four-year term, his plan can be the model for a radical recasting of welfare programs nationwide. Says he: "Our welfare-reform initiatives are geared to help individuals help themselves. Some people think they're very harsh, and some are. They're toughlove...
Such developments have thrown a harsh spotlight on the performance of Catholic leadership. Says Jason Berry, the freelance journalist who broke the Louisiana story and is completing a book on the outbreak of clerical scandals: "The real shock was not that a priest could be capable of molesting children but the mendacity and the duplicity among church officials who had harbored and recycled him so many times...
...some, the program seems an unqualified success. Hugging her three-year- old son and two-year-old daughter, Lackey praises the harsh medicine that put her back in the classroom. Learnfare "should be put in all the states," she says. "The people who criticize it want the money free and do nothing for it. But nothing comes free...