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...made the last payment on the house I today," cries Willy Loman's widow at the conclusion of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. "We're free and clear." Many Americans still consider owning a home a virtual birthright, as well as a necessary inflation hedge. But today people are being forced to find ingenious and complex schemes to beat the high cost of achieving Loman's dream...
...public library to the democratic process. The philosophy of education and free access to information is the foundation of our educational system, and was the impetus for the American Free Library Movement. Enlightenment for all, in free and ready access to and service at your public library is the birthright of every citizen. The advocates of a user-fee threaten this philosophy. I see our tradition and heritage in grave danger...
Home. In a picaresque odyssey, a black Southern farmer is exiled from his bucolic birthright to a Northern city of torrid lures and abject nightmares. Guiding him safely back home is Playwright Samm-Art Williams, an imagistic poet of prose wedded to infectious humor...
...than Begin about Israel's need to control all of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Moreover, he would bring to the negotiations none of the biblical fervor that fires Begin to claim the West Bank (or Judea and Samaria, as he calls it) as the historical birthright of the Jews; the Egyptians find that position exasperating and irrational. By contrast, Peres favors a plan that calls for the return of nonstrategic portions of the West Bank to Jordan, which lost the area to Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. Beyond that, Peres believes that a joint...
...support and understanding of research, appreciate what Sagan has become: America's most effective salesman of science. His pitch in Cosmos?and indeed in all his popularizing?is classic Sagan. Says he: "Science is a joy. It is not just something for an isolated, remote elite. It is our birthright." What scientist could disagree? ?By Frederic Golden. Reported by Peter Stoler/Venice, Calif...