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...times people who live in overcrowded apartments, where there are limits on the number of residents, will say there are fewer people in their households because they think somehow Uncle Sam will notify their landlords and get them thrown out," Rubin says. "Sometimes women will also omit their husbabnds' names from the census because they think they will get more welfare money to take care of their children...
...insensitivity lies in his phrasing of information in lecture and the implications of that phrasing. It also lies in the information he chooses to explore or omit and what I, a Black student, am left to interpret. For example, I am left to question his sensitivity when affirmative action is incompletely defined as "government enforcement of preferential treatment in hiring promotion and college admissions" in a book we had to read for his course that he edited. I am also left to question his sensitivity when I hear that Black men get feelings of inadequacy, beat their wives, and take...
Even on its own terms, Daniel's list provokes challenges. How is it possible in evaluating the political turmoils of this century to omit the Chinese Communist revolution, which is not only the major event in the lives of one-third of the earth's inhabitants but also the first such revolution among the world's nonwhite peoples? And how is it possible to omit the Holocaust, which not only led to the state of Israel and thus to the modern Middle East, which not only changed every Jew's conception of his identity and his place in the world...
...CRIME WITH which Monson has been charged is to "willfully omit, without lawful excuse" necessary medical care for her child. Under the provisions of this 1926 law, fetuses are considered persons. The statute has been used primarily to force husbands to furnish child support for families they have deserted; the fetus has been considered a child in order to make the father responsible...
...bother to film Verdi's Otello if you are going to omit its most famous aria, the haunting Willow Song, thus reducing Desdemona to a walk-on? Director Franco Zeffirelli never quite answers that question. The flamboyant Italian's 1983 cinematic version of La Traviata widened the opera's scope with tender reminiscences only implied in the libretto. In Otello, however, flashbacks to the Moor's slave childhood are maudlin, and Zeffirelli's camera, jumping edgily from storm to massed choruses to brawls and bedrooms, tires the mind. As Otello, Tenor Placido Domingo is in robust voice, and Bass Justino...