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...late 1970s and early 1980s, Levine worked in different IT and computing posts at Indiana University, where he earned a doctorate degree...
Prudish? Moi? Re your article "Postcard: Paris" I suspect that there is a more sinister reason for young French women's reluctance to bare their flesh [Aug. 10]. In the 1970s and 1980s, going topless was a way for women to express their liberation and equality with men. Women's shape and size did not matter. Nowadays, young girls are expected to be liberated, clever, independent and physically perfect. By refusing to unveil their bodies they are rebelling against unrealistic expectations in the same way as their mothers did by burning their bras. Shame on you, South Africa! Anne Favier...
...first thing I learned from talking to Nasuk is that calling someone an Eskimo isn't cool, since some believe it's a term for raw-meat eater. That sounded pretty bad until I realized it's exactly what yuppie meant in the 1980s. A proud Inupiat, Nasuk said that when her people were hunter-gatherers in the freezing North Slope, they sometimes had to leave behind the weak and elderly. "My understanding is that elders would voluntarily stay behind. It wouldn't have been a cruel practice. It would have been an acceptance of 'I'm dying...
...Kennedy's later involvement with one of Derry's most famous sons repaired much of the damage caused by his earlier comments. During the 1980s, Kennedy became a close friend of John Hume, a Nobel Peace laureate and former leader of the nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party. For Hume, a key part of ending the conflict in Northern Ireland was persuading hard-line Irish-American groups that had donated money to the IRA during the Troubles - the period of sectarian violence that claimed more than 3,600 lives between the '60s and '80s - to support the fledgling peace process...
...begun his political career opposed to abortion - in a 1971 letter, Kennedy wrote, "Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized." But like many other Democratic politicians, he became a supporter of abortion rights by the 1980s. By the end of his career he was regularly awarded a 100% positive rating from NARAL Pro-Choice America for his abortion-related votes, a record that put him at odds with Church leadership...