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I'm not so optimistic and green that I believe Pangloss's theory that "everything happens for the best in the best of all possible worlds," and I hope that I haven't bee brainwashed to envision Harvard as "the pie in the sky," but I still wonder why the...
As interest in women's studies has grown, so has the presence of men in the Library. King says 10 to 15 per cent of the library's users are now men, utilizing the resources either for women's history in particular or to supplement a more general history. The...
What, if anything, can be done? "Make torture as unthinkable as slavery," answers David Hawk, the executive director of Amnesty International's New York branch. As Hawk well knows, that laudable goal is not easy to achieve-no easier, certainly, than the abolition of slavery was. Amnesty itself has...
"So this is the little lady who made this big war," said Abraham Lincoln. The President was meeting the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time, more than a decade after the book's publication in 1852. It was not simply a patronizing remark. Harriet...
Nonetheless, Carter's advisers do worry that inflation will speed up again as unemployment falls below 5%. To keep prices down, Carter advocates a hatful of standard Democratic remedies: some undefined programs to improve labor productivity and the abolition of Government regulatory restrictions that keep prices high, such as...