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Tokenism is, of course, unfair to qualified men, who risk getting trampled underfoot in the headlong rush to place women--any women--in high positions. It also denigrates women and tends to limit the number of real women powerholders, the Sansone candidacy being a case in point. It also keeps women out of major positions which carry more than symbolic import. State parties are quite willing to nominate women for lower, largely figurehead posts, but there are currently no women governors. Only two gubernatorial candidates nationwide today are female...
Until the one million-strong peace march in Manhattan in early June, I was rather pessimistic about the possibilities of reversing the nuclear arms race in its headlong flight to doomsday for the Northern Hemisphere, if not the entire planet. Having "free-lanced" the march (I went as a loner and deliberately walked fast in order to take in the panorama of groups coming out for this "big event"). I came away with a much more optimistic feeling about our being able to stop what Helen Caldicott calls Nuclear Madness (the title of her recent book...
...there is more to the appeal of Gregory's Girl than wistfulness for the kind of adolescence no one seems to enjoy any more. Writer-Director Bill Forsyth, working inexpensively on his native heath, is not one to confront life headlong and headon. He is a jogger not a sprinter, a man content to chug amiably along observing the world through a series of sidelong glances instead of driving single-mindedly toward a narrow goal...
Despite its best intentions, Mexico has fallen into the same economic trap that ensnared Nigeria, Iran and other developing nations that found themselves suddenly oil-rich in 1974. Instead of using its wealth to pay for a program of slow and steady economic development, the country plunged headlong into accelerated industrialization. For a while, the campaign produced impressive results, creating nearly 1 million new jobs per year and propelling Mexico to the rank of the world's fourth largest oil producer, with an output of 2.7 million...
...when Woodbury refused to leave, an angry classmate advanced and struck him in the face, and the entire class crowded around, picked him up, and "immediately thrust him headlong over the stairs." The president refused to continue the gathering, and later that evening called four students before the government, charged them with throwing Woodbury out of the chapel, and expelled them...