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...added essay, Avoiding Sexist Language, offers some useful gender-neutral suggestions (firefighter instead of fireman). Yet browsers will find as well the stamp of acceptance on the dreadful herstory ("an alternative form to distinguish or emphasize the particular experience of women"); the execrable womyn ("alternative spelling to avoid the suggestion of sexism perceived in the sequence m-e-n"); and the absurd wait-person (waiter or waitress) and waitron ("a person of either sex who waits on tables"). Future lexicons, perhaps, will give us waitoid (a person of indeterminate sex who waits on tables...
...there's another reason for Baker's frenetic shuttling -- the securing of George Bush's re-election in 1992. Many American Jews harbor an inchoate but visceral belief that while Ronald Reagan and George Shultz were seen as instinctive friends of Israel, Bush and Baker are at best neutral toward the Jewish state. "We've reinforced that perception with a series of statements viewed as unfairly squeezing Israel," concedes a State Department official, "but if we can generate even a little progress -- or just the appearance of progress -- the hostility should fade...
...accord that the U.S. and its allies did not so much as pause in their efforts to establish a safe haven for the Kurds in northern Iraq. Said a U.S. official about the agreement: "We can't welcome it. We can't pooh-pooh it. So we're extremely neutral." However, if the detente reached in Baghdad sticks, it may yet serve the allies' interests. If a final pact prompts the displaced Kurds to return to their homes, it would relieve the allies of the enormous difficulties they face in trying to aid the refugees without becoming entangled with Baghdad...
Unmarked and in poor shape, yale's home course treated the visitors with utter disrespect, as did the Elis, refusing to provide yardage maps to either the Crimson or the Tigers. All three teams will face off again in the Ivy League Championships April 20-21 at the neutral Bethpage State Park course on Long Island...
This dichotomy between art and ideology is a curious one. Certainly, the technical merit of a work of art is morally neutral and should be judged separately from the content. But to demand that only the former quality be the basis for judging a work's value is to deny art's role in human life and its purpose of conveying and influencing human thoughts and experiences. The value of a work to the viewer and society--which is what the NEA judges are judging when they allocate our society's money--depends on both style and content...