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Usually, the targeted spouse is a woman. "This is the '90s version of public flogging," says Catherine Blinder of the Connecticut Commission on the Status of Women. "Women have always been persecuted for infidelity." In July Donna Carroll, a Janesville, Wis., homemaker, completed 40 hours of community service and attended a parenting session after her estranged husband charged her with adultery. While she denied the allegation, she agreed to the punishment in order to avoid a trial and the possibility of up to two years in jail and a $10,000 fine...
...inflation surged along with unemployment in the 1970s, the Keynesians now point out that Reagan borrowed from their philosophy in propelling his economic boom with deficit spending, which Keynesians have long advocated as a cure for slumps. "Keynesianism was vindicated by these last eight years," says Princeton economist Alan Blinder, a leading exponent of the school of thought. Blinder insists, however, that the deficits have got far out of hand...
...prepare him for his later life. "The attempt of the American of 1800 to educate the American of 1900," he wrote, "had not often been surpassed for folly...The attempt of the American of 1900 to educate the American of 2000," he was equally convinced, "must be even blinder...
...thing is certain: no one today can or should ignore AIDS. Yet the general public has turned an even blinder eye to the disease's ravaging of central Africa than it has to the tragedy in the homosexual community--which may reveal something about our prejudices. Recent attempts to make warnings strike "closer to home" can easily have the reverse effect. At best, exaggerated wolf-crying will not, in the long run, teach people caution. At worst, it will cause people to strike back at "them", who they fear are on the verge of spreading the disease to "us", even...
...vaulted, 58-ft.- high registry hall, only a few dozen needed replacing. In addition to restoring the 20-ft. by 20-ft. dormitory spaces (three families to a room), one wing of the main building will include new exhibition space and two theaters designed by the firm Beyer Blinder Belle. A broad entrance ramp covered by a vast canopy, original elements of the main building, will be rebuilt, but in unmistakably modern materials and forms. "We are trying to emulate the original designs but not trying to fool people in a Disney World sense," says Brooklyn-born Architect Michael Adlerstein...