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A NYT front-pager reviews the blooming of open "God talk" among presidential hopefuls, seeing in it an efficient way to flash distance from the squalor of the Clinton scandals.
But at least it will be a different kind of squalor."
Many of these babies grow up in squalor and themselves become dependent denizens of the welfare culture.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. describes returning to Africa 25 years after his first visit: He is stunned by the squalor.
Flem rises from rural squalor, getting a job as a clerk at Varner's store in Frenchman's Bend, then taking over the store, then moving to the town of Jefferson.