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...borders on demagoguery to offer, in referendum form, one simple solution to the problem. To argue, as one supporter did, that a freeze "is easily verifiable, because you can always detect zero," reflects an ignorance or a confidence inappropriate for the matter. Such arguments take advantage of gut-level fears and channel them towards superficially appealing solutions...
...Perry is telling the truth--and reporters covering the story generally believe there was some affair between her and Atkinson--her case has strong gut appeal. In Mitchelson's words, her million-dollar suit says, in effect: "I lost a baby because you deceived me, you lied to me." At 38, Perry may well be too old to bear her first child, according to her attorney, who says having her own child has always been one of the psychologist's major desires. If Perry's facts are right, it's dead wrong that Atkinson--who is 53 and married...
...Mitchelson has two major obstacles to success. The first is, as he acknowledges, that victory would require some court to create a new "right" for mistresses. Judges are almost always ginger about expanding legal rights--even when strong gut feelings are involved, especially when freaky facts are involved. The right would presumably be one allowing mistresses to be free from a lover's coercion in deciding whether to bear a child...
They are, after all, credible critics for the most part. When Thomas Dine, executive director of the vociferously pro-Israel American Israel Public Affairs Committee, last week praised part of President Reagan's Middle East initiative bitterly condemned by Begin, you knew he wasn't out to gut the Jewish state...
Last year, Nagy shocked a number of gut seekers by announcing paper assignments during the introductory lecture. The immediate result, he recalls, was that "about 200 people didn't show up the next time, which is not what I intended. I was more surprised than anybody...