They chose to protect my tax cut, while cutting 140, 000 unemployed workers out of their job training programs, 100, 000 working families out of their child care assistance, and worst of all, while cutting 300, 000 poor children out of their after-school programs, when we know it keeps them off the streets, out of trouble, in school, learning, going to college and having a good life.

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"All my working life it's that sort of differential that has driven me on every day to think about why it is that some people don't have a fair chance of having a good long life, we have to reverse that, " she said.

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Throughout his adult life, Pat Moynihan was part of so many different and opposing worlds that having it both ways was almost a way of life for him, for good and for ill.

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Nothing about my life these days makes me an especially good candidate for having a dog.

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Mr Berlusconi already has a credibility problem at home over his private life, having refused to make good his pledge to explain to parliament his relationship with an 18-year-old aspiring model.

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For that matter, no social good is served by having the embezzler or the Ponzi schemer locked in a cage for the rest of his life, rather than having him bankrupt and doing community service in the South Bronx for the next decade or two.

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