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...GOLDMAN AND DEMME didn't make him a hero. They don't try to graft any Hero of the American West symbolism onto this resolutely unheroic man; Dummar is no Gilmore, and Goldman is no Mailer. Melvin never gets a cent because the courts rule his will invalid. He faces his defeat with a curious--yet by this time predictable--ambivalence. Melvin says and actually seems to believe that he never had anything, so he's not losing anything. Despite all the lousy hands he has been dealt, Melvin enjoys his life and doesn't see any reason to change...
...system of government has become dominated by conservatives, for a time at least; but to take 1980 as proof that the nation as well has shifted irrevocably right is to ignore the election's simple numbers and its circumstances. Reagan's sweeping electoral victory translates to a 51 per cent to 41 per cent popular vote lead in a pool of barely over half the eligible voting population. That is a powerful victory, but not a landslide...
...very tired--and with good reason. Since they'd moved into the new plant, they'd been working staggered shifts--switching from day to night shifts every other week. The union said that Harvard had offered them a two-year contract guaranteeing regular shifts and 10- and 9-per-cent wage increases but then had turned around on its promise. Harvard-hired officials denied that, saying they were offering the same wage increase, and wanted to leave the work schedules issue open to discussion...
...energy shortage of the last decade has catapulted American Indian tribes, under whose lands lie vast domestic energy resources, into a politically influential but tenuous position. American Indian tribes own more than 50 per cent of this country's known reserves of uranium--deposits that account for more than 4 per cent of the total world uranium output. More than one-third of the nation's surface coal lies on Indian lands, areas that have also been proposed as sites for future synthetic fuel plants. But in recent years, legislation has been proposed in Congress to limit the control...
...reasons I am at Harvard is for protection, it's that simple," she says, looking up. "When you are living in the Southwest and your mail arrives opened 40 or 50 per cent of the time it's a little bit unnerving. And when your phone's tapped, it's a little more unnerving. And when your files are rifled, your cars are followed, and your friends are arrested, then you begin to get real scared. When you see that happen all around you, you realize that Harvard is a bastion, an ivory tower, a place where...