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Kathleen N. Cleaver, a former leading activist of the Black Panther Party, will lecture on feminist and civil rights issues later this month...
...makers say that Republicans are pro-life because they don't care about women and wish to return them to June Cleaver status. The Harvard Republican Club, following the Republican National Party Platform, opposes abortion in all but a few circumstances. This is hardly motivated by the desire to keep women "barefoot and pregnant." It comes from a genuine concern about the moral issue raised by the termination each year of 1.1 million pregnancies...
Some of the nation's antipoverty programs require overhauling. But before the cleaver is swung, it would be wise to consider some facts about poverty and its causes...
...food. Across the country "Julia-watchers" saw her in the kitchen, infectiously enthusiastic, her flour-drenched hands reaching for the inevitable glass of red wine. Through her happy, expert engagement in the practice of cooking--in stuffing sausage casings by hand, in halving a winter squash with mallet and cleaver--she made food preparation appealing, and even enticing. In her book The Way to Cook she introduces "A Fast Saute of Beef for Two" as "something to keep in mind for a rather important and intimate occasion....[W]hen you are an informal twosome, why not prepare the whole meal...
...Republican nominee is Foley's strongest adversary in recent memory: not for his political credentials, but for his lack of them. George Nethercutt, an affable, politically moderate 49-year-old adoption and estate lawyer from Spokane, comes across like Ward Cleaver and punctuates his campaign speeches with such cardigan-elbowed jibes as, "I don't want to be the Speaker. I want to be the listener." And while he respectfully and boyishly refers to the Speaker as "Mr. Foley," his hard-edged campaign ads paint the incumbent as the symbol of everything that is wrong with Washington. As Nethercutt spokesman...