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...illegal alien population swells, a controversy roils over the effects of this "invisible" underclass on society. INS officials estimate that illegal immigrants cost the U.S. $4 billion annually in benefits, lost income taxes and wages that would otherwise go to Americans. Another study by the Environmental Fund, a Washington research group, puts the cost at $ 14 billion. It is also estimated that Mexicans ship $3 billion a year to their families back home. With easily forged documents, some illegals get all the perks of citizenship, including welfare, unemployment benefits, food stamps and Medicaid. Many illegals are paid in cash...
Developed by the Committee on Undergraduate Residential Life (CURL). Princeton's residential college system went through many rough drafts before construction finally began last year on five underclass "complexes"--Butler. Madison, Mathey, Rockefeller, and Wilson--each of which provides an assortment of recreation or t.v. common rooms. The five colleges were formed around clusters of existing dorms which have a dining hall centrally located. The system will eventually house all freshmen and sophomores, but only the freshman class was initiated into the program last fall. Dean of Student Affairs Andy Brown said he thought the CURL plan had been implemented...
Some Currier residents question whether the enthusiasm of the House will continue after the current seniors graduate, but Viola and Khazei are confident that the Juniors and Sophomores will initiate their own ideas and style of leadership, pointing to underclass involvement in the dance marathon as an indicator...
...each in its own harrowing way, have been maps of contemporary man's journeys to the end of the night. The Hungarian writer's first book, The Case Worker (1974), charted the descent of a compassionate social worker into the degradation and suffering of Communism's underclass. His second, more ideological novel, The City Builder (1978), explored the pathways to the Utopias that have led to police terror and violence. By then it was clear that Hungary's national tragedy had cast up a major writer, in a class with West Germany's Heinrich...
...screechy, preachy political cat fight between Marlene and Joyce. Marlene is a staunch advocate of Margaret Thatcher, whom her sister derides as "Hitlerina." The question raised is provocative: Is the future to be divided between a smart, scrambling upper class of no-holds-barred individualists and a permanent underclass of poor souls who are unfit for the survival of the fittest...