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Fact of the Week

**Fact of the Week**
On July 29, President Bush said something so wrong-headed, mean-spirited, and stupid about welfare and education that we have to quote a full paragraph. Under the way they're kind of writing it right now, out of the Senate Finance Committee, some people could spend their entire five years -- there's a five-year work requirement -- on welfare, going to college. Now, that's not my view of helping people become independent. And it's certainly not my view of understanding the importance of work and helping people achieve the dignity necessary so they can live a free life, free from government control. George W. Bush spent four years at Yale and two years at Harvard Business School before he held down a job that lasted for more than none months. Now he would like Americans to believe that these six years did nothing for his understanding of the importance of work or for the dignity that he needs to live a free life. Sources: White House transcripts, 29 July 2002; Frontline chronology

**This week's columns**
The Face of a Child Paul Corrigan When your children return from camp, politics, work, and even 98-degree heat become secondary. Go to article!	Second to None Tim Francis-Wright John Ashcroft likes one Amendment in the Bill of Rights much more than the others, and he has not chosen wisely. Go to article!

The Greedy Bunch: These 25 insiders made vast fortunes from stock sales while ordinary investors lost their shirts (Fortune).
"If Attacked, Israel Might Nuke Iraq": American intelligence officials believe that Israel would use nuclear weapons in rataliation to an Iraqi biological attack (Ze'ev Schiff, Ha'aretz).
Who Owns Water?: The earth's fresh water is finite and small, but corporations and their favorite governments are seeking to take it private (Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, The Nation).
In the Secret-Detentions Club: The United States is now keeping secret the names of its detainees, just like nations we usually criticize do (Barbara Crossette, New York Times).
Venezuela's Press Power: When it comes to discrediting Hugo Chávez, anything goes in the Venezuelan media (Maurice Lemoine, Le Monde-Diplomatique).
War on the Peasantry: Mugabe's crimes pale next to what black African farmers endure in the name of development (George Monbiot, The Guardian).

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