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While it is certainly too much to hope that ignoring people like Mansfield and Wasinger will make them go away, another cliche usually applied to immature children does seem apt here: The attention only encourages them...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Mindless Moralizing | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

...perhaps that's not an apt metaphor," hesaid

Author: By Kathryn M. Meneely, | Title: Justice Students Mob Core Office | 10/19/1993 | See Source »

...title of the film is startlingly apt. The film is structurally divided into two halves, connected by a moving transition. The first half is filmed exclusively on the hill and mostly in the house...

Author: By Young-ho Yoon, | Title: Kurosawa's Exquisite Film, `High and Low' | 10/14/1993 | See Source »

...There are no growing industries in these regions--no biotechnology, no computer software developing, no international banking. The economy still relies on the vanishing coal and steel industries. As natural resources evaporate, so do livelihoods. Viewed by outsiders as "white trash", the people of Appalachia are not the most apt to be defended by average concerned citizens. But without a voice, these people can only suffer the indignity of leaving their homes for cities in a simple effort to survive...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Stagnation Without Representation | 9/27/1993 | See Source »

...people who conducted this survey concede that the sample was far too small to be reliable. Moreover, if recent research is right in suggesting a genetic basis for homosexuality, it may be that parental role models have little or no influence. Conservatives retort that common sense suggests children are apt to emulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gay Parents: Under Fire and on the Rise | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

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