Word: less
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha responded with something less than an outright denial of Pretoria's complicity, saying merely, "The South African government cannot be held responsible for this deed." He suggested, without offering any proof, that "serious arguments" among antiapartheid organizations may have led to September's killing. Supporters of the nonracial A.N.C. have indeed been caught up in deadly battles with other political groups, including the blacks-only Azanian People's Organization and the Zulu-based Inkatha organization. Factional disputes also exist inside the A.N.C. French police, however, disclosed no evidence linking any group, of whatever...
...remembering an observation made by Thomas Wolfe. "There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves," he wrote in The Web and the Rock. Somehow, the act of reheating dinner seems a lot less appealing...
...dean of undergraduate studies. The fear that just such a question was being raised, however, brought bellows of protest from academic conservatives like Education Secretary William Bennett. A devout classicist, he accused Stanford's revisionists of "academic intimidation," claiming that a "very vocal minority is attempting to overpower a less vocal majority." Dismantling the core curriculum, he warned, amounted to "trashing Plato and Shakespeare...
...thinking, a rejection of traditional roles. Jerome Skolnick, a professor at the University of California law school at Berkeley, describes the increased gun ownership among women as a "gender revolution. The notion that only men protect is no longer valid." Agrees Teryl Jansons, a Massachusetts attorney: "People are less apt to take advantage of your situation, since you don't look like you're afraid -- because...
...whole point of training," explains Carol Kolen, a Chicago psychologist who has taken shooting lessons. "It gives me the feeling that I could take care of myself." Most female gun owners, say police officials, are careful to abide by the laws regulating possession of handguns. But women are less likely than men to advertise their ownership of a weapon. "I don't go around bragging about it," says Karen Elise, 31, from Beverly Hills, whose parents were robbed late one night last year. "I don't think it's good for people to know...