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Despite Flaherty's 24 years of experience in the State House, odds are that the happy days of Nutsy Fagan's Democratic legislature will seem far away. But fellow legislators and state government observers say they think Flaherty has what it takes to assert a progressive agenda while keeping tight control of the House...
...alien to him, he is open to their ways, making no effort to impose his on them. Quite the opposite; he becomes an earnest convert to their life-style. When he finds a wife, he is exemplary in his gentle attentiveness and supportiveness as she struggles to find and assert a "personhood" that was confused by events in her early history...
...assert that were such a threat posed by Senator Helms against an ACT-UP member, it would have been reported in a manner far more damaging to the issuer of such garbage than your portrayal of the ACT-UP meeting was damning to that group...
...current appeal of such male chauvinist beliefs can be traced to Islam's response to Western expansionism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Fearing the erosion of their culture, the Wahhabis and others chose to assert values that set them apart, including the negative aspects of Islam's treatment of women. Modern Islamic fundamentalism is essentially a revival of this earlier reaction against the West...
...literally. In one scene, Ruiz declares to Pizarro that he wants nothing more than to be in Peru with his master. "Being your page is enough, sir," Ruiz says. Submission seems to be Hall's implicit motif throughout the performance, as he is completely unable to assert his character. He is too burdened with flat delivery and inertia...