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...Paris, Mitterrand's government was trying to cope with the outraged domestic reaction to the Chad fiasco. Said former Prime Minister Maurice Couve de Murville: "France has suffered one of its most serious humiliations in a long time." Writing in Liberation, a leftist newspaper, the respected commentator Serge July observed: "The worst in this kind of affair is that everyone expects Mitterrand to be duped, and in the end he is duped. You can't believe your eyes. One asks oneself if there is not something suicidal in Mitterrand's behavior." The barrage of criticism did little...
...problems and desires of both worlds and how the worlds are not nearly as far apart as they might superficially seem to be. Arnold is a nightclub drag queen who falls in love, loses his lover to a woman, wants to raise a child, and has to cope with a nagging Jewish mother through it all. It can happen to anyone...
...maintain their independence, Kate and Claire must cope with a parade of day-care workers. It begins with Mercedes Robbins, who arrives in designer jeans and high heels, and extends through fire-breathing fundamentalists, people who show up late or fall asleep after they arrive until finally a friendly, energetic Trinidadian nurse takes over and be comes the book's unlikely heroine. For a story of two isolated women, Sheehan's canvas is crowded with lively figures, including Claire's callous sister and a diabolical city administrator. The author's prose is as prosy and readable...
Against him, as the candidate of the Out party, stood Walter Mondale. The Out party must always cope with the new surges and forces of this restless country, unrestrained by the discipline of a sitting President. But in 1984 so many new surges were pressing up from underneath that the orthodox political issues were to blur in the interminable Democratic primaries. Mondale, a man of conscience but also a master political mechanic, had tried to swallow them all, to bring a coherence to the multitude...
...share. If, as in England, the permanent jobs lost are usually so-called men's jobs and the new openings are increasingly filled by women, there is a harsh edge to the future that women seek to shape. An irrational sex struggle over jobs, with which politics must cope, lies just beyond the horizon. In 1984 women unwittingly placed that matter on the agenda of 1988 and the years to follow...