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Amid bitter debate, a committee of feminist historians passed a grim resolution saying that "as feminist scholars we have a responsibility not to allow our scholarship to be used against the interests of women struggling for equity in our society." That wording would seem to say that truth must take a backseat to feminist interests, but supporters deny this interpretation. They point to an accompanying resolution that reads, "We believe that as scholars we may have many differing interpretations of the sources in women's history, and we reject the claims of anyone to be representing a 'true interpretation...
...Audubon in Louisville, the former Government quality-control inspector, who was 54, suffered a massive stroke. Tuesday morning he was discovered unconscious with labored breathing; 30 hours later his breathing had stopped for good. With Schroeder's family gathered round, doctors pronounced him dead, but there remained a last grim task: to turn off the pneumatically driven device that had kept him alive for 20 months. Surgeon William DeVries put his hand on the chrome key in the front of the refrigerator-size air console; then Schroeder's wife Margaret and their six children, one by one, laid theirs atop...
That's why even (or especially) diehard Sox fans viewing this year's pennant race totter in the volatile area between grim cynicism and disbelieving joy as the BoSox strengthen their hold on baseball's strongest division. Trusting a team that's hurt you is difficult. Boston fans should know not to excite themselves over silly little 13-game leads, like the one the Sox blew eight years...
...Rumania's First Lady, but her true role is more akin to royal consort and heir apparent to her husband President Nicolae Ceausescu. In his grim dictatorship, she increasingly appears to be the power behind the throne. Already Elena Ceausescu, 67, is the object of a personality cult that rivals that of the 68-year-old President. Her birthday, like his, is a national holiday, her portrait waves in street parades, and the Rumanian media resound with her praise. She is variously hailed as the "woman-hero," the "party's torch," the "guiding spirit behind science and culture" and even...
...court also added a grim refinement to its ten-year effort to chart new ground rules for capital punishment. Just two days after Georgia executed a retarded man convicted of murder, the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that the Constitution's Eighth Amendment ban on "cruel and unusual punishments" bars states from executing insane prisoners. The decision came in a Florida case involving convicted Killer Alvin B. Ford. The court found that Florida's procedures for determining his sanity before execution were inadequate and ordered new proceedings. Yet even if Ford is found insane, Justice Lewis Powell noted...