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...Princeton's Sara McLanahan that found that children of divorce drop out of high school, become teen mothers and are jobless far more frequently than their peers. Wallerstein insists that "I have never told people to stay together at all costs," and opposes tougher divorce laws for being of dubious value for the children. Nor is she charmed by premarital waiting periods: "Time by itself does nothing. They would need to do something with that waiting period. What, I don't know...
Your article, for which I was interviewed, misrepresents several key points regarding the discussion of the need for more B-2 bombers. You say that Northrop Grumman's firm fixed-price offer for 20 additional B-2s is ``dubious,'' that these aircraft will be ``stripped-down'' versions with ``scant strategic value.'' Northrop Grumman's firm fixed price offers new B- 2s for an average price of $570 million each. Those who question the validity of this price fail to understand the meaning of the term firm fixed price. It means just what it says. It's true there are additional...
...smiling at what some detractors and publishing analysts are saying about the magazine today: 1) its methods of testing and evaluating products are sometimes flawed and less objective than they appear; 2) the magazine has evolved from a neutral reporter into an advocate of politically correct but scientifically dubious environmental causes; and 3) as a general-interest publication, CR can no longer keep up with the flood of new products and hence cannot compete with the growing number of specialty magazines that rate, say, computers and the tidal wave of new software...
...Gerard's. James deWitt, fiction editor, may be willing to help Frances. Claudia Etienne, Gerard's sister, needs money her brother controls to satisfy the "boy toy" she wants to marry. Gabriel Dauntsey, poet and poetry editor, faces eviction from his home of thirty years if Gerard lives. Other dubious characters include Esme Carling, a rejected writer, Miss Blackett, an ill-treated secretary, and Sydney Bartrum, a desperate accountant...
...victory for good sense. It was marred, however, by the way Heyman justified the cancellation. He claimed that in principle it was a mistake to combine a historical commemoration with historical analysis. This in itself is a dubious proposition, but Heyman compounded the damage with his elaboration that "veterans and their families ... were not looking for analysis, and, frankly, we did not give enough thought to the intense feelings such an analysis would evoke...