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...said the tax revenue from the sale of the drug could go to education and medical treatment (including the building of "little mini-hospitals") for drug addicts...
...interviews are short--they range from 5 to 12 pages (including pictures and bibliography). The authors abandoned the classic question and answer format for a genre they call the "mini-essay." The organization is unfortunate-after authors finally set the scene, there is precious little space for the women writers to speak meaningfully of their work. The brief interviews are never long enough to answer the questions they raise. In addition, Pearlman and Henderson spend unnecessary time summarizing the writers' works, sometimes with lengthy quotes from the writer themselves...
...writers' works. Pearlman and Henderson also obscure the writers' views by floating quotes into the text and tagging them with "we agreed," never revealing who originally set the statement forth. Their Gilliganesque emphasis on connectedness is at best distracting, and at worst, dishonest. Pearlman dedicates sections of her mini-essays to explicating her own theories on space in women's literature. Interviewing Erdrich on her rich fictions of Native American families on the Western Plains, Pearlman slights the more complex and promising theories of history and race for the patterns of opened and closed space which she herself detects...
Harvard University Medical Services sponsors the exhibit "Mind Your Own Business," which looks at health and our bodies. Included is the mini-display, "Who Minded Our Business," which talks about AIDS through magazine articles and recorded phone messages...
...After a mini-performance on stage, Salisa moves to the floor, still shakin' and bakin', working the room for tips. The dollar bills get placed in some sensitive spots, but she doesn't seems to mind...