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Porter is the author of two books on economic policy, Presidential Decision Making and The U.S.-U.S.S.R. Grain Agreement...
...Alliance, along with the original author, Human Life Alliance of the Minnesota Education Fund Inc., sees the question of the legality of abortion in the starkest of terms. It writes, "'the only choice' in abortion is between a dead baby or a live baby." Abortion is deemed an absolute moral wrong because it involves the murder of an unborn child. If this claim is true, if abortion is murder, then it should be illegal under current American law, the brochure states. But for a multiplicity of other reasons, it can be shown that the ethical questions of the abortion procedure...
...Smith, author of the new book Rethinking America, compared U.S. schools to those in Japan and Germany. He noted that although the same percentage of students in all three countries complete college, only America lacks a vocationally-focused high school for the 70 percent of its students who will not attend college...
...like an official movie star. She's known worldwide; she seems to be extremely popular in places where she goes; and there are lots of substantive, unimportant, but symbolically quite important things she can do--open British trade fairs, promote exports--an official movie star." HUGO YOUNG, author, political columnist, the Guardian...
...movies, as commentators of every political stripe have noted, are a glamorous mirror of society. Growing up, we all find ourselves, in part, by finding aspects of ourselves onscreen. Gays didn't. "You feel like a ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British...