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...voters turned their back on the right as well. The Union for France, a coalition of the two main conservative parties, reaped a mere 33%, down 4 points from its share in the last regional elections in 1986. Just under half (49%) of those who cast ballots chose to leap out of the political mainstream altogether...
...women was "How do I get to know a guy better without leading him on?" The men who were attuned to women's fear of violence then asked "Well, how do we know when women are interested in us as more than friends without taking the uncertain leap into possible embarrassment or aggressive behavior...
...classic sense. People were enunciating new issues. There were speakouts and demonstrations. That still goes on, but now that we have majority support, we're ready for institutional change. Women are beginning to connect our everyday lives to changing work patterns and even the government. It's a big leap to think that what happens to you every day -- in the secretarial pool, at the shopping center -- has anything to do with who is in the Senate or the White House. The connection is just beginning to be forged. We are only 25 years into what by all precedent...
...poet-guerrilla so idealized by "friends of China" had other, more public failings, and Salisbury charts them in detail. Impatient with the slow pace of economic development, Mao launched the catastrophic Great Leap Forward in 1958. The movement forced farmers into communes, abolished private property and set up backyard steel mills to speed China into the industrial age. By 1960 even seed grains were exhausted and millions were starving to death...
...defies a number of critics, many of them women, who have decried Steinem for "abandoning the cause" by subsuming feminism in a model for self-recovery and creating a harmful diversion from the feminist agenda. Nonsense, says writer Joan Murphy Lloyd. "We're talking about a conscious, quantum, evolutionary leap here. Feminism is part of that whole...