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Bush rejects the notion that having a full-time public responsibility is a handicap, since public positions can be used to gain the all-important exposure. Says he of Dole and Baker: "They were out there in Iowa a lot too, plus they had a spotlight out of Washington that a person like me didn't have." Restricting early campaigning, he thinks, would "infringe on a person's fundamental right to seek the presidency...
Having grown up in a world of silence, Frelich actually feels no envy for those who can hear. Her parents were deaf, and genetics made her and her eight brothers and sisters deaf as well. None of them found not being able to hear a great handicap, and she has little patience for do-gooders. "Most people I would meet were extremely patronizing," she says, signing rapidly to her husband, who puts her words into speech for TIME'S Elaine Dutka. "'Look at this wonderful deaf person,' they'd think, and want...
...nation's largest city faces a special handicap in coping with black problems: perched on the brink of bankruptcy for five years, it has had little choice but to curtail services that had once made life more bearable for blacks trapped in some of the bleakest ghettos in the U.S. Blacks occupy 41.2% of the substandard housing in the city and account for about 36% of the 867,173 New Yorkers on welfare. The basic monthly allowance ($476 for a family of four) has not gone up since 1974, but food costs have risen 42.5%, utilities 82%, transportation...
...Many of the nation's blue-chip prospects, who have athletic tunnel vision and hunger for a high-caliber program, are not going to be attracted by the educational advantages of a Harvard. Yet inexplicably, Harvard often competes against the very schools that do harbor such hot-shots. The handicap that Crimson teams must confront in contests is both clear and substantial...
Sequels of giant hits, like children who follow Daddy's favorite, always have an unfair burden. They are not examined on their own merits but in relationship to the picture everyone loved. In many ways Lucas and Kershner have overcome that handicap. The Empire Strikes Back is a more polished and, in some ways, a richer film. But to imitate Yoda's way of speaking, and to answer the obvious question, as much...