Word: central
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...Personally, professionally and creatively, these may well be the best three years of my life," she enthuses. "I am experiencing a rebirth." Such themes -- independence, job fulfillment and spiritual renewal -- are central elements of Lear's. Divided into five sections, including "Pleasures" and "Self Center," the premiere issue features an interview with Philippine President Corazon Aquino and original fiction by Doris Lessing. There are also inspirational profiles of half a dozen exemplars of the Lear's woman, a combination of elegance, success and self-awareness. Most revolutionary are the fashion pages, which feature models ranging from...
...Stone's The Trial of Socrates provides an unintended counterweight to the central theses of Bloom, who fancies himself a disciple of Socrates. Stone, the legendary lefty muckraking journalist, set out in his retirement to write a sweeping tome on freedom of thought in human history. His studies inevitably drew him back to Athens. "There, like so many before me," he writes, "I fell in love with the Greeks...
...military officers were grouped at the central garrison of the Defense Forces, a short distance from the former Panama Canal Zone...
...concerned with the whole progressive reform movement in education and giving teachers more say in what goes on opposed to the central office saying, 'Use this book,'" Stern says...
...That's empty, inflammatory rhetoric," responds L.A.P.D. Spokesman William Booth. Westwood got its beefed-up patrols, authorities say, because of the many well-heeled shoppers and tourists drawn there. But South Central residents have watched in recent years as the predominantly white precincts of the city defeated two proposed property-tax increases to add to Los Angeles' understaffed police force. Los Angeles, with 3.3 million people, has an authorized police force of just 7,350 officers; Chicago, with a population of 3 million, has 12,500. In the wake of Karen Toshima's killing, the Los Angeles city council voted...