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Author Sylvia Ann Hewlett, 40, pursues that analysis with a wealth of fact, interviews and occasional personal reflections, in A Lesser Life: The Myth of Women's Liberation in America (Morrow; $17.95). The book is the product of three years of research by the author, an economist and director of the Economic Policy Council, a Manhattan-based think tank. Hewlett was increasingly struck by the income disparity between European and American women, a plight she illustrates with cold statistics. As of August 1985, Census Bureau figures show that women in the U.S. earn 64 cents for each dollar earned...
...British-born Hewlett, mother of four children, gained some of her knowledge about that problem the hard way. Part of the inspiration for Lesser Life grew out of her own agonies in juggling career and motherhood while teaching economics at Barnard College in the 1970s. Barnard granted no maternity leave at the time, and Hewlett claims that her inability to get time off during a difficult pregnancy contributed to her miscarriage of twins. Hewlett also relates that her department chairman warned that she might not gain tenure if she got pregnant again. Eventually she was refused tenure...
...Ginger Rogers in provincial Italian nightclubs and variety houses. Pippo and Amelia are long retired, but their one-shot TV comeback will be a treat for old fans and an astonishment to the younger set, especially if they can get through their act without suffering heart attacks or some lesser public humiliation...
Billig, 55, had been fired from two previous jobs and had not performed open-chest surgery in nearly six years before entering the Navy in 1982. He was found guilty on two counts of involuntary manslaughter, and on a lesser charge of negligent homicide in the case of retired Major William Frank Grubb, who died in 1984 after Billig performed bypass surgery on him. In addition, he was found guilty on 18 counts of dereliction of duty. Throughout his seven- week trial, the jury, which included three medical doctors and a nurse, took meticulous notes. Said one officer...
...idea is simple. In friendly countries ruled by dictators, America should use its influence to support a "third force," a democratic alternative to a pro-American despot on the one hand and Communist insurgents on the other. A third-force strategy means not settling for the lesser of two evils, but trying to help build and support a middle, democratic, third...