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...best in him. In A Bad Goodbye, he sings a duet with Wynonna Judd, who draws out an emotional edge in his ! voice. On Happiness Alone, Black and co-writer Jimmy Buffet turn the usual country formula inside out, creating a refreshing pop song with just an echo of country twang: "A man can't survive on happiness alone...
...Social Security taxes for an 81-year-old part-time domestic in his employ since 1980. Last February, even before Supreme Court Justice Byron White announced his retirement, Breyer paid up. Although White House aides maintained Clinton was "still leaning" toward the jurist, it was a paltry echo of earlier encomiums...
...being linked to the abortion business. "Searle has never willingly made ((Cytotec)) available for use in abortion," a company official wrote in a letter to the Wall Street Journal in February. "It is not Searle's intention or desire to become embroiled in the abortion issue." Searle's reservations echo that of Hoechst president Wolfgang Hilger, who has been open about his ethical objections...
...Women often define new fields, so they don't fit in existing fields in any standard way," says Johnson. Others echo her concern that narrowly defined search criteria can exclude women whose areas of expertise straddle several disciplines or embody new viewpoints...
Thus both sides of the "culture wars" of the '80s and '90s took form in the pivotal year of '68. The key issues are different now -- abortion and gay rights, for example, as opposed to Vietnam and racism -- but the underlying themes still echo the clashes of '68: Diversity vs. conformity, tradition vs. iconoclasm, self-expression vs. deference to norms. "Question authority," in other words, vs. "Father knows best...