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...fact, his most serious problem in the Secretary's job was not related to his policy decisions but to the overall drift of the Administration he was part of. "Les Aspin was dealt a difficult hand," says Oklahoma Representative Dave McCurdy, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, which Aspin once chaired. "The first card was gays and lesbians: faceup. Then came the three regional problems -- Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti -- for which nobody in the Administration had real answers." The heaving and rocking of the Clinton White House as it struggles to define America's role in the world...
...paragraphs described a kiosk that had been set up in the newly renovated arcade. This particular stand dealt in women's hair accessories, and the salesperson (note the gender neutral term), had told me that female workers in the Holyoke Center were her best customers. I innocently included this fact in my article...
...said he felt that both Mansfield andSullivan dealt well with the moral and politicalarguments questioned in the course...
...problem is exacerbated by the character of local government. Anyone who has dealt with a local zoning board or a state-level bureaucracy knows that such bodies are hardly Institutions (with a capital `I') worthy of respect, so much as institutions (as in "mental') for those with pathologically underdeveloped intellects and overdeveloped egos. How are folks like the cloven-hooved aspiring-deacons of the Williamson County Commission supposed to hold their own against the likes of Apple and its army of Ivy-league lawyer/consultant mercenaries? It's as though Homer Simpson were to take on Gary Kasparov in a chess...
...perverse, and then perversely glorified oppressive all-male environments: prison, brutal reform schools and the SS all received romanticized treatment in such landmark novels as Our Lady of Flowers and The Thief's Journal. What Genet lacked in moral acuity he made up for in artistic originality. His novels dealt with subjects most French readers of his day found seedy at best: drag queens, hustlers, thieves, sailors having sex with each another. But he wrote these stories in a highly ornamental prose which dazzled readers and made him a friend of Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Cocteau and Alberto Giacommetti...