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Bush's decision to veto this much-needed bill is disturbing on several levels. In an oft-quoted campaign speech to a group of Republican women in Indiana, candidate George Bush said that what he meant by a "gentler nation" was one in which a woman does not have to worry about getting her job back if she takes time off to have a baby or care a sick child. But we live in a nation where a woman must worry about returning to her job after having a child or caring for a sick family member...
...thought she was the glasnost equivalent of Nancy; no continent the two occupied at the same time seemed big enough. By comparison, last week's distaff summit was a close encounter of a gentler kind, and a small, makeshift stage at Wellesley College was more than space enough for both. This was Barbara Bush's coming of age as First Lady, her riposte to student complaints that she did not reflect "the self-affirming qualities of a Wellesley graduate." The Soviet First Lady confined herself to predictable Kremlin- speak about perestroika, leaving the ovations for her hostess...
Beijing's kinder, gentler line appears to be directed as much toward its own increasingly alienated people as its foreign creditors. "If the ruling party cuts itself off from the masses," warned an extraordinarily candid commentary in the Communist theoretical magazine Qiushi (Seeking Truth) last month, "it will invite calamity or will even be forced to step down." In the absence of ambitious goals like the economic and political liberalization policies set by fallen party chief Zhao Ziyang, says a Western diplomat in Beijing, "politics becomes a question of how you achieve stability best." At the moment, two approaches...
Imposing this oppressive vision on American families--more than half of which include two careers--will only increase marital dissolution, gender inequality and unhappiness among children. The United State is the only industrialized nation besides South Africa that doesn't guarantee family leave. President Bush's "kinder and gentler," "pro-family" agenda seems to consist of keeping America in that shameful company...
Judaism, Christianity and Muhammadanism are male dominant, and Robbins seems to feel -- though this and much else are not clear -- that worship of the goddess Astarte in early times was gentler. His novel's heroine is an Astarte- Venus-Jezebel figure, a young artist named Ellen Cherry. Her husband Boomer, a lame, redneck welder, appears to represent the lame god Vulcan in this strange jumble of myths...