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...this last topic, Woolf waxes bittersweet. She attacks with venomous humor the state of affairs that allows men's colleges to sup off partridges and wine and dwell in marble halls, while women's colleges are unable to afford anything better than beef, water and bricks. Here and elsewhere in the play, Woolf emphasizes that pure intelligence is not enough for women who want to succeed in life. They also must know how to struggle...
None of this is outrageous in today's political discourse. (Obviously such ideas did not begin with the end of the Cold War, but for years Democrats felt that the only way to win popular support for that war was to beef up social programs. Now that rationale has disappeared.) Less extreme versions of Duke--those without the racism stigma, that is--are winning support all over...
...Kerrey's" is a traditional, family-style eatery. Very...Nebraskan. No nouvelle cuisine. No soft, chic pink neon lighting. This is the Corn Belt. We like juicy 100% real beef burgers and vintage Cornhusker football memora-bilia hung on the walls for ambience...
...hazards of poultry factories are typical of the conditions that workers face in many industries. With the demand for chicken rising as it gains on beef in the American diet, the assembly lines in poultry plants move twice as fast as they did a decade ago, often butchering employees as well as poultry. According to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1 in 5 poultry workers has been seriously injured in the hands, wrists or shoulders...
...category, for instance, are most of the nation's homeless. To be officially counted as unemployed, you must have an address. Some claim that the number of Americans who have given up looking for work is twice the official estimate. Most economists urge the Labor Department to beef up its reporting methods to improve its count of discouraged workers. Says former U.A.W. leader Douglas Fraser, now a professor of labor studies at Wayne State University in Detroit: "By undercounting the unemployed, the jobless problem is being disguised...