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...sari, committed to her home and family, my mother first encountered a very young Indira at a local college, where she gave a speech about the role of college-educated women in the future of the country. To my mother, Indira Gandhi was and always will be a beacon of hope for the future of the Indian woman. For thousands of Indian women like my mother, she symbolized all that the Indian woman could achieve, given the limited opportunities of a social and cultural tradition that to this day requires a woman to take second place to her husband...
...other political bodies in countries does the process of legislation less resemble the Democratic process, and in few other political bodies is the term 'representative' more devoid of meaning. The sorry state of affairs on Beacon Hill is attributable to the almost monarchial power of Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and Speaker of the House Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who until now have dispensed patronage and dictated legislation to sub-servient rank-and-file representatives and senators...
...Republican lot has not always been such a sorry one. Republican governors ruled the state for the decade before Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, running on a fiscal austerity, no-taxes platform, won Beacon Hill for the Democrats...
...other political bodies in countries does the process of legislation less resemble the Democratic process, and in few other political bodies is the term 'representative' more devoid of meaning. The sorry state of affairs on Beacon Hill is attributable to the almost monarchial power of Senate President William M. Bulger (D-Boston) and Speaker of the House Thomas W. McGee (D-Lynn), who until now have dispensed patronage and dictated legislation to subservient rank-and-file representatives and senators...
...attention to such trivia was a sure sign that the nation was in the midst of that sultry vacationtime when people-and news events-wind down. Some editors claim that the modern news business resists the seasonal lassitude. But consider the Wichita Eagle-Beacon, which played on Page One a wire-service tale proclaiming that some 8,000 Americans are injured each year by toothpicks. Consider especially the Milwaukee Journal, which gave front-page display to the theft from a clothesline of 21 socks that were drying in the sun. And what of the 22nd? Tune in next August...