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...dozen fresh ideas for doctoring the economy. He is sure to try a few of the still secret proposals. Indeed, in the White House there is the feeling that within the next couple of years the time will be right to reform health care and Social Security and to adopt a flat-rate income tax. There is even some muttering against the 20-year-old triad strategic-defense structure (bombers, land-based missiles, submarines). Reagan aides believe that in the future, high costs and new technology will induce the U.S. to concentrate more on submarines and to venture into space...
...material and psychological differences that separate them from Americans. And from the beginning, the interpretation of these differences has ranged from blind admiration to an equally blind repulsion. During the 19th century, Mexican liberals saw American democracy, not without reason, as the archetype of modernity. This led them to adopt the American political system. Their attempt failed, in part, because Mexico for three centuries had been a Roman Catholic monarchy; neither its people nor its leaders had experienced the great spiritual, political and economic revolution with which modernity began. We wanted to leap from a traditional society to a modern...
...nuclear family. In New York City, employees of Rupert Murdoch's leftish weekly Village Voice will soon be able to get health benefits for gay (and straight) lovers, with the company paying the cost. Last summer a New York appeals court ruled that a gay man could adopt his lover in a case where the partners involved were fighting an apartment lease that prohibited occupancy by nonfamily members. Noting that homosexual relations in private are no longer against the law in New York, the court upheld the right to adopt, reasoning that "the best description of a family...
...inspiration when the author is seemingly flapped by a well-established rigid family and a love hate relationship with the city of his birth Destonomy love affairs sap or sustain his creativity? Can poets make their contemporaries sound obsolete by pioneering new styles or force each other to adopt new techniques. What happens to a poet when he sees hits mentors and friends dying, their deaths so close together as to seem more than a coincidence. Most important, what is the relationship between genius and insanity does one cause the other...
...Pretoria that apartheid must go. And it encourages more than 30 American firms to reconsider both the moral and financial wisdom of maintaining businesses in South Africa. If the Bay State's action reveals a romantic outlook, it is a romanticism that the University would be wise to adopt...