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...anyone who remembers the Medfly fiasco in California can attest to. Others of this breed seem more sensible, a Tsongas or a Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.). Rothenberg writes of the way similar rhetoric characterizes the neoliberals. That's well enough, but behind this rhetoric there is a distinct lack of the coalition-building and bridge-crossing that makes politics work, a significant irony in light of the renewed call for cooperation among the country's various constituencies. Americans aren't normally fooled by rhetoric--though the Reagan presidency is a notable exception--and they got tired after...
Hardly anybody writes odes to Indianapolis. No Sandburg or Gershwin has ever praised the Midwestern city's hard American beauty. No bustling metropolis, that town; no seething cauldron of culture. Instead, folks mockingly called it "India-no-place." For almost a century, it was a city lacking a distinct identity. Sure, it was the state capital and could boast about being "the crossroads of America," what with U.S. Highways 31, 36, 40, 52 and 136 and Interstate Highways 65, 69, 70 and 74 all converging there. And since 1911, the city has hosted the Indy 500, that annual race...
Some physicians are convinced that there are distinct characteristics that make some people more susceptible to chronic pain. Drs. David Richlin and Leonard Brand of Presbyterian Hospital in New York City list the following traits: low motivation, poor self-image, lack of pride in accomplishments, dependency on others...
This year the Faculty's Women's Studies Committee made several distinct efforts to promote a more comprehensive program for women's studies, including Harvard's offer of a tenure to a scholar who would be associated with an established department but specialize in women's scholarship...
When confronted with a moral problem--whether or not a poor man should steal a drug for his dying wife that the druggist would not give him--the boy and girl responded differently in ways that, according to Gilligan, reveal the two distinct moral voices...