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...corner and ignoring the din and chaos as he read." It is the kind of place too where a visiting student, Edward Lewis, now president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, recalls a lecture given by Professor Paul Tillich that ended with 800 students rising to applaud the theologian. Says Lewis: "That's earned mystique...
Birth-control specialists applaud the condom's effectiveness. Still, "it's like the horse and carriage," notes Dr. Harrith Hasson of the Society for the Advancement of Contraception. "It's a fine means of transportation, but if we had been satisfied to stop there, we would never have invented the car and the airplane." Unfortunately, research faces difficulties. Many companies have pulled back because of the cost of testing and the risk of suits. Federally funded research is down as well. Clinical tests of an NIH-developed implant system called Capronor stalled for more than a year because the company...
...finance lower tax rates for consumers, the conference committee boosted levies on businesses by $120 billion over the next five years. The new law will wipe out most of the special tax incentives and shelters that industries have lobbied for and protected for decades. Yet surprisingly, most corporate leaders applaud the reform, since they feel that in the long run they will benefit from a more efficient and vibrant, not to mention fairer, economy. Says Robert Silverman, president of Atlanta's Winter Construction, whose business is sure to feel the loss of tax preferences aimed at real estate...
Miller has concocted a fable that reassures several constituencies of readers. Feminists can applaud the pluck of the heroine and the swinishness of the men who oppress her. Moralists can point with satisfaction to the grueling consequences of Anna's licentiousness, the anxiety, humiliation and the trial itself, what she calls "the price I had to pay." And the novel generates enough suspense to tug even those readers who know they are being hoodwinked into its wake. But a shuffling of cliches does not qualify as a literary breakthrough. The author seems skillful enough to have tried something truly daring...
...Cuomo's father-in-law was paralyzed by a mugger's attack. "Look, my mother wants revenge." Cuomo does not. He tells them that he is for life without parole. "I'd say, 'That's it, Charlie, you're going to be by yourself for 100 years.' " The policemen applaud...