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Most alarming of all, peasants who believe the birth of a female child is a sign of divine disfavor have revived the practice of drowning baby girls at birth. They have indirectly been encouraged by the government's preference for single-child families. In Xiaogan county of Hubei province last year there were almost four times as many boys as girls under the age of three...
...wrote letters criticizing lawyers who defend drunken drivers [Feb. 6]. It is sad that many people feel compelled to crusade against one group or another and then to use that forum to chastise attorneys. If we disregard the right to a defense of a group that is held in disfavor, then the protection of the law will potentially be unavailable...
...despite recent indications of Presidential disfavor of Feldstein, Carliner remarked. "His ideas seem to be winning...
...case currently under consideration, is very new indeed for Linda Ronstadt, 37, whose lovelorn voice has provided rock 'n' roll with some of the best ballad singing of the decade just past. Now, turning to other decades long past and currently in musical disfavor among her peers, Ronstadt has found a fresh direction. What's New, released last week by Asylum, avoids all the obvious routes. Powered by the celestial arrangements of Nelson Riddle, the album is not a sentimental journey, a dizzy camp-out or a show-biz grandstand play. It is a simple, almost reverent...
These extravaganzas of DeMillean dimension have fallen into disfavor with cost-conscious designers and jaded audiences. The shows have been slightly scaled down, but are diminished only in dimension, not purpose. Their rhythm, far from stately, is a touch slower, just as the rate of stylistic change may generally have been tempered. "The slower-paced changes in men's wear are moderating the rhythm of women's wear," says Gianni Versace, "which seems right to me, given the hard economic times we are living through...