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...being debated, mostly over meals, are whether the father (Ed Harris) should take a job out of town, whether the elder son (William O'Leary) should go to college or start adult life, and whether the younger (Anthony Rapp), a child actor, should enter an elite high school or embark on a national tour. (In one of Playwright Furth's slyer jokes, the unnamed play the boy is invited to join is recognizably A Streetcar Named Desire.) The father, who lacks a high school diploma, harangues his family about education and ambition. The mother (Judith Ivey) wants her children...
...Soviet Union have shown signs of a thaw in the past year, the U.S. still considers itself the first among superpowers in Peking. That assumption got a jolt last week when an article in the Chinese journal Red Flag attacked U.S. foreign policy and declared that China may embark on a policy of maintaining an "equal distance" from the two superpowers...
...Christa McAuliffe is to be truly honored as the hero she was, she must be remembered as a teacher--not an astronaut. Public education needs a serious reappraisal and revitalization. There could be no greater way of honoring Ms. McAuliffe than to embark on this mission in her name...
...really intend a social service program for South Africa's elite white business class, did they? And why would they want to aid in the illegal occupation and economic exploitation of Namibia? But if their intentions were not evil, how could they have been so naive as to embark on the present program...
Blackwell's brand of feminists, however, demanded a greater sacrifice than most women are willing to make, and a greater sacrifice than most men have to make. Blackwell wanted women doctors to embark on a crusade for greater humaneness in the profession, particularly in obstetrics and gynecology. Norton herself wrote, "Women, in fact, have not been attracted to those areas which Elizabeth Blackwell thought cried out for them..." The 20th century has shown as that although it is now legally possible for women to become doctors, other obstacles still stand in the way. Medical training requires a time commitment that...