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...uselessness" is precisely what makes it cool. As Matthew Zapruder, a poet and an editor at Wave Press, observes, "The idea that you write poetry your whole life and then suddenly in a very public way have to start thinking about how to make it 'useful' for the nation is pretty terrifying. In a culture like ours, where language has been completely and utterly subordinated to the task of selling people things, how do you create a little freedom? Only in art that isn't designed to sell or convince or sermonize or cajole or urge. Maybe that's poetry...
...issues have divided the nation as sharply in the past 13 years as Roe vs. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision affirming women's constitutional right to abortion. Last week it became apparent that states' efforts to regulate abortion are having an equally divisive effect on the high court. In overturning a Pennsylvania law designed to discourage women from seeking abortions, Justice Harry Blackmun and four colleagues ringingly reaffirmed the court's 1973 landmark ruling. But four dissenters, including Chief Justice Warren Burger, sharply questioned the ever widening scope of Roe and subsequent decisions. If states cannot impose some limits...
...fall about 15% further by 1995. The anxieties and woes of the steel industry's shrinking labor force, and the debate surrounding that predicament, seem all too symptomatic of the troubles and uncertainties that are engulfing much of U.S. manufacturing these days. The hard fact is that the nation is coping with one of the most wrenching economic transitions since the turn of the century. Despite the Reagan Administration's upbeat talk of continuing economic growth and prosperity, workers in traditional American industries insist on singing the shutdown blues, sometimes in whole choirs. Four years after the official...
...President first tried to persuade Congress to grant $100 million in military and humanitarian aid to the contras, Nicaragua's rebel forces. Reagan went on an intense, high-profile campaign complete with apocalyptic speeches warning of a Communist takeover of the Americas and a televised appeal to the nation. In the end, the House voted against him. This time around, as Reagan takes another crack at winning approval for his package, he has adopted a more low-key approach, tending to rally support behind closed doors. Yet already the public charges, by both friends and foes of the anti-Sandinista...
...live in this chilly, light-struck wilderness? Could I be an Alaskan?'' Such wild surmising, which is half the fun of travel, churns dependable fantasies anywhere, in Salzburg or Ladakh. But for a U.S. citizen, the daydreams seem especially strong in Alaska. This is, after all, his own nation, yet it is stranger than Zanzibar. The pale north light itself is delusive, lingering in the weeks before and after the solstice till midnight and more. The tourist's mind accepts this fifth-grade geography stunner, but his blood and bone do not. They are roiled by restless energy, and they...