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...translator for this woman was the Vice President of the UFW--hardly a person without a stake in what the woman said. But none of this was surprising considering that the title itself is misleading: there is only one worker featured in the story. The Crimson's journalistic irresponsibility is disconcerting. --David M. Lehn...
...infecting themselves with hepatitis with the help of visitors--a potentially deadly gamble. But others have refused to seek such paroles, on the theory that if they leave China, they will never be allowed to return. They feel that exile means irrelevance. "Frankly," says Boston University's Merle Goldman, "none of these dissident groups [overseas] have had much impact back in China...
...None of that was on the McCaugheys' minds when they first went to see Hauser last spring. Their daughter Mikayla was 16 months old, and all they wanted was to give her a brother or sister. Bobbi had had trouble conceiving Mikayla; she had finally become pregnant after spending a fruitless year on one fertility drug and then switching to the more powerful Metrodin. Neither she nor Kenny wanted to wait a year this time, so she went on Metrodin right away--though, on Hauser's advice, at a lower dose. But while doctors can carefully control the number...
...chips, it's easier to keep winning," Matthew Paige Damon confided the other evening as we settled into our seats for several hands of seven-card stud, high-low. We were hanging out in a private poker club in New York City, and none of the players had a clue that the baby-faced kid pulling up to the table was within days--perhaps hours--of becoming a Big Movie Star...
...None, of course. Unless you can find cold comfort in cold cash. Which is why a sardonic God invented negligence lawyers. Russell Banks, author of the novel from which Atom Egoyan derived The Sweet Hereafter, has, however, improved on His handiwork, creating in Mitchell Stephens (Ian Holm) a man who chases settlements with a chills-and-fever passion that can be explained not by greed but by the suppurating wounds life has inflicted on him. The man, whom Holm plays with superbly controlled fanaticism, wants compensation from an unfair universe but finds momentary relief in squeezing more readily available targets...