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Spearfishing was part of the Chippewa way of life long before white settlers arrived in Wisconsin. The Indians claim that the protests are motivated by racism. Says Tom Maulson, an activist with the Lac du Flambeau band: "No respect is given to Indian people. They have to stand up for their rights...
...East European countries. In the meantime, plastic-foam manufacturers in the U.S. say they will stop using CFCs in their products, and Vermont has decreed that the chemicals must be eliminated from auto air-conditioners in new cars sold in the state after 1993. Major CFC suppliers like Du Pont are developing substitutes that are much less harmful to the ozone...
WHEN Earth Day was first celebrated 20 years ago, few people other than hard-core liberal activists and tree-hugging environmentalists took part. Today, in the wake of high-profile environmental disasters and increasing media coverage of environmental issues, preserving the environment has become a hot issue du jour. Even George Bush, as a Republican presidential candidate, made rhetorical commitments to conservation and environmental clean...
...smitten; and his silver-haired uncle George (Kevin Colson), whom Rose marries for love and money. Over the years, all three have flings with Giulietta (Kathleen Rowe McAllen), an Italian sculptor, and Alex and George display more than familial interest in George's daughter Jenny (played by Deanna Du Clos at age 12, and by her sister Danielle at a nubile 14). In addition, each of these worldly figures, save Jenny, has countless other liaisons. Infidelity is treated as a commonplace of sophisticated marriage, jealousy as an adolescent joke...
Such a sensitive male is an unusual protagonist for Anita Brookner, the * acclaimed British novelist who won the 1984 Booker McConnell Prize for Hotel du Lac. Most often she focuses her exacting eye on women, solitary spinsters picking their way through uneventful but carefully examined lives. Lewis Percy is reminiscent of all of those awkward, hapless English twits, those Lucky Jims who comically court failure in the farcical novels of Kingsley Amis, William Boyd and David Lodge. But though it has brisk satirical asides, Lewis Percy is a halfhearted comedy. We cannot sympathize for long with so ineffectual a hero...