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...slender, well-dressed woman, Benhabib is neither pretentious nor distant. The laity may not easily grasp her work, but her effort to explain the intricacies of research into the thoughts of the great theorists of moral and political philosophy is fascinating...
...precipitous drop in the rebate, which was 5 percent the previous year and in the not-so-distant past has been as high as 13 percent, angered students and cut short Murphy's honeymoon as the new president. The rebate, paid annually to members, comes out of company profits, which declined more than 80 percent between 1991 and 1992, from $2.6 million...
...more than 4,000 years ago, forcing them to pay tribute in wheat, barley and silver. For a century the regime flourished, first under Sargon and then under his grandson until suddenly, mysteriously, it collapsed. Neither the capital city of Akkad, famed for its harbor filled with vessels from distant shores, nor the imperial records, etched in cuneiform and possibly chronicling the empire's demise, have ever been found...
...have a whole generation of kids suffering from neglect," says sociologist Stephen Klineberg of Houston's Rice University. "There is no one at home when they return from school, and this neglect in socialization results in increased violence." Others cite neglect's twin evil, child abuse, or that distant relative, school truancy. Liberals decry poverty; conservatives fault the decline of family values...
PATTI DAVIS VS. THE REAGANS: Meanwhile, on the Reagan home front, alliances have shifted as well. Patti, having called Mom a pill-popping child abuser and Dad cruelly distant, now tells Variety that they all get on just fine...