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...Atwood does more than just rail against the ugliness of human relations. Her willingness to confront the seamy side of men and women's behavior makes her forgiving. By acknowledging human shortcomings they become less acute Ultimately. Atwood sees the elements of Elizabethan tragedy in modern life, you have to descend to the bottom of the wheel of fortune before you come...

Author: By Merin G. Wexler, | Title: Wheel of Fortune | 11/13/1982 | See Source »

...anything. Though civil rights leaders made mistakes in the past and are still making some today, blame for the job and skills crisis plaguing perhaps 35 percent of Blacks belongs one place only--at the feet of America's economic and political elite who lack the moral vision to confront the chronic unemployment of Blacks in post-industrial capitalism. It's curious to me that so-called "radical activist" Kenyatta fails to grasp this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hustling | 11/10/1982 | See Source »

After the election, Reagan and Congress mil have lots to confront...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Still Not Byrned Up? | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...appeared temporarily oblivious to a $155 billion deficit projected for fiscal 1983 and attempted to divert public concern from a 10.1 % unemployment rate with the promise of better days ahead. But elections and optimism go hand in hand, regardless of political party. What the White House must now confront is a panoply of politically charged issues it kept under wraps during the campaign season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: Still Not Byrned Up? | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

During his visit, Shultz summed up the sticky state of U.S.-Canada relations well. Said he: "We have to put these issues on the table and confront them and work at them and argue about them, and eventually resolve them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Facing a Winter of Discontent | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

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