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...feminist movement has always insisted that women's liberation must go hand in hand with changing roles for men, particularly at home. Such changes are coming about, though women still do the lion's share of the den keeping. Not only are fathers present in the birthing room (90% are there, as opposed to 10% twenty years ago) and willing to change diapers, but their entire job has been reinterpreted from passive bill payer to activist player. "It's no longer seen as unmasculine to be caring for young children," says Hanne Sonquist, a family therapist in Santa Barbara, Calif...
When aspiring movie mogul Giancarlo Parretti visited the White House Oval Office two weeks ago, he boasted to President Bush that he would soon complete the cliff-hanging takeover of MGM/UA Communications and would make "the lion roar as it did in its heyday." This time he may not eat his words. After months of legal and financial maneuvers, Parretti's Pathe Communications is expected this week to wrap up the $1.3 billion acquisition of MGM/UA from financier Kirk Kerkorian...
...Reductions in a variety of spending programs, military and civilian, along with increased fees for many services would make up the lion's share of deficit reduction. Pentagon spending would fall a total of $67 billion during the first three years, not counting the cost of the Persian Gulf operation. Farm supports would shrink by $13 billion, civil service pensions by $8 billion, guaranteed student loans by $2 billion, assistance to veterans by $2.7 billion. Jobless workers would have to wait two weeks before receiving unemployment compensation...
...technology, the U.S. led most major developments, from the jet plane to the computer. It pioneered the move from the industrial to the information society. It did a lion's share of theoretical work in the sciences. For better or worse, it built -- and used -- the atom bomb, forever changing the calculus of war and peace. It took man to the moon. It played the major role in proving capitalism, widely seen as doomed in the century's first half, to be a vital and successful system. Above all, it decisively helped defeat the two great totalitarian enemies of freedom...
...most boneheaded decisions ever made by a municipal authority -- Keystone Kops reinventing Vietnam as a minifarce in which a neighborhood is destroyed in order to save it. For Cudjoe, the big bang represents creation in the form of a mysterious survivor, a boy known as Simba Muntu (Lion Man) seen walking away from the burning wreckage. The search for Simba provides the novel with an open-ended structure that allows Wideman to display his talents...