1.   As Massachusetts reaches a crucial midpoint in its welfare reform experiment, the figures and facts suggest two things.

2.   But that may also be the double-edged sword that keeps the reform experiment from winning the war for hearts and minds.

3.   Officials in the state capital, Jefferson City, have embraced the plan as a welfare reform experiment with promise and say the Sedalia program could spread soon.

4.   That is particularly onerous in the new era of welfare reform experiments by the states when poorly conceived provisions may harm the poor unless changed.

5.   When Republicans accused him of hypocrisy, he used his executive powers to allow individual states to conduct their own welfare reform experiments.

6.   When corruption scandals are in the headlines, then the entire Russian reform experiment is dismissed as illegitimate.

7.   A lawmaker and the head of an independent think tank, he has been active in recent years in market reform experiments in various regions of Russia.

8.   Since then, he has headed an independent think tank and was active in market reform experiments in various regions of Russia.