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Then there are the personal stories of abuse told at the rally's open micro phone. While the experience is undoubtedly cathartic, the "sea of nodding, approving faces" speakers describes makes us suspicious that this preaching-to-the-choir approach encourages more to seek catharsis than should. No need to wonder too hard...
...truth, I think, is that Americans love marriage too much. We rush into marriage with abandon, expecting a micro-Utopia on Earth. We pile all our needs onto it, our expectations, neuroses and hopes. In fact, we made marriage into the panda bear of human social institutions: we loved it to death...
...working around the clock to prepare a "reauthorization proposal" for Congress in November that will suggest ways to make the system work. She says one of her first priorities is to reduce the percentage of the monies flowing into lawyers' pockets in litigation. She is also pushing for micro-settlements for thousands of small guilty parties. "Nobody at EPA is after the pizza-parlor guy who may have sent his waste to a municipal landfill," she says. "That's not what Superfund is about." She also hopes to reduce litigation by suggesting, among other solutions, that corporations bypass lawyers...
Nonetheless, the first U.S.-Japan talks to set such targets began last Friday in Washington. And President Clinton strongly endorses the new approach. "Once we get the budget out of the way," Clinton told TIME last week, "our economic policy is going to be more micro," that is, more focused on "targeted investment in promising technologies" and on "opening markets abroad" for specific industries in which the U.S. stands to create thousands of new jobs. Predicts Clinton proudly of his economic adviser: "That's where Laura is really going to shine...
Dunlop says he doubts extending standards would result in micro-management...