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...Essay titled "What It Would Be Like If Women Win." What it would be like was a whole lot better, for men as well as women, because, as she said right up front, "Women don't want to exchange places with men." We wanted better places, in a kinder, gentler, less rigidly gendered world...
Perhaps some people would prefer us to be homeless, unemployed and uninsured, and, indeed, others do prefer us dead. Is this our "kinder, gentler nation...
...Congress is not solely -- or even primarily -- to blame. For a decade the Reagan and Bush administrations have been submitting fraudulent, free- lunch budgets that promised huge tax cuts, a social "safety net," a "kinder, gentler" nation, improved education, a war on drugs, the greatest military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush...
Lamont Library (like its Quad counterpart, Hilles) is officially a home for undergrads who might otherwise get lost in Widener, requiring the University to send out an expensive and embarrassing search party. Lamont is supposed to be a kinder, gentler library in which you can ask the reference librarian where they keep Mad magazine and not feel like a moron...
SITTING PRETTY (New World Records). Conductor John McGlinn deserves some kind of sainthood for resurrecting this 1924 Jerome Kern delight. Amid its jolly ebullience, moments of gentler lyricism look ahead to such works as Show Boat and Roberta. Perfectly cast and impossible to resist...