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...environment, Mondale offers a clear choice as the candidate who best understands the urgent need to safeguard the country's land, water and air. Under Reagan's stewardship-or rather, lack of stewardship-the environment has suffered a brutal attack from the forces of neglect unleashed by the lies of James Watt and Ann Burford...
...been hearing for years now about the mammoth renovation project sweeping through the Houses, costing tens of millions of dollars and aiming to remedy the problems that years of neglect inflicted upon the gems of the College's residential system. Before the work started three years ago, officials laid out a schedule that put the Quad Houses at the end of the list, precisely because, the logic went, they needed the most work. More time, officials claimed, would translate into more extensive planning and--most importantly--enough millions to realize all that generations of Quad residents had dreamed about: plush...
...women of China's 4.2 million-strong People's Liberation Army,- the biggest but by no means the most threatening military force in the world, had reason to feel gratified. Long years of disrepute and public neglect appeared to be ending at last. Over the past two decades, the P.L.A.'s leadership has repeatedly been purged as punishment for meddling in Peking's power struggles...
...novel seems to be building toward a contemporary inversion of the Oedipus myth, in which the father would possess the son's bride. That impression is heightened by the best and perhaps most autobiographical scenes, as the narrator recalls a childhood of willful rudeness and neglect by his father, accompanied by pitiable flirtation from his mother. Yet just when Arlen, working through the accumulation of small, freighted moments, reaches an apparent climax, the ruminative and wistful tone turns frantic. In the culmination of a night of frenzied incident, the father is shot and gravely wounded by a romantic rival...
...neglect a matter of economics or racism? "Hollywood is too dumb to be racist," charges Actor Yaphet Kotto (Blue Collar, Brubaker). "This town is all about dough-that's the crime." For Leon Isaac Kennedy (Penitentiary, Body and Soul), the problem is the industry's "blockbuster mentality. They want 100% of the audience pie. They'd rather not go for slices...