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...hunters who gleefully blow prairie dogs and other little animals to bits shows how far some of humanity still has to go [AMERICAN SCENE, Aug. 7]. It's a frightening example of what people can do with what they consider to be their freedom and rights in this country. NORMA HAMILTON Punta Gorda...
...loved being a whore, and that offends people." Norma Jean Almodovar, 49, head of the International Sex Workers Foundation for Art, Culture and Education, has made a career from such bluster. But being an activist for prostitutes is less lucrative than her previous job--impersonating a bawdy Julia Child for her johns. (That was one specialty...
...images are indelible, in history and in movies: Henry Fonda agitating for farmworkers' rights in The Grapes of Wrath; Sally Field leading the textile workers in Norma Rae; even the young Marlon Brando finally realizing, in On the Waterfront, that good union guys could overcome corrupt union leaders. As Woody Guthrie songs were the sound track of America's organized working class, the movies offered snapshots of blue-collar heroism...
...problem for Verizon management, of course, is that this isn't the pre-Norma Rae era, when the media were less clued in to labor issues and management could double-talk their way through negotiations without sustaining any serious damage. And of course, today's tight labor market gives workers' demands a great deal more economic weight. The Verizon workers who walked out Monday know they've got considerable clout - after all, if management can't find a way to get them back to work soon, Verizon corporate types could have the whole of New York City to contend with...
...With any luck, U.S. District Judge Norma Holloway Johnson, veteran of many an impeachment-era court ruling, will get to the bottom of it. And this time there'll be no leaking - all parties have to make relevant documents public. By next week, we could be reliving another impeachment tradition: the data dump. About 18 months after everybody stopped reading...