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...strains persist between Thatcher and her European counterparts, particularly French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. A little more subtlety might have served her better, but subtlety is not a Thatcher trait. "She recognizes that she is not one of nature's negotiators," says an adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual...
...appalling truths about penitentiaries have been exposed so often and thoroughly that only one real mystery is left. Why does society let these institutions persist as they are? The country's continual resistance to substantial prison reform is not easy to understand. Present building plans alone prove that stinginess does not really explain it. Real reform might save money, but it is as though the public remains somehow blind to the situation. Prison, after all, has become a symbol of society's stern feelings against crime. And most Americans probably carry in mind not an actual institution...
...internalized as private ideal as well, to be emulated is a sexually submissive one. The healthy development of women as individuals and the healthy development of society as a cooperative community of equals will continue to be stunted so long as these images of women, warped by sexual stereotypes, persist. Offensive ads like this one glamorize the subjugation. The Crimson article of Friday February twenty-third, by Steve Wolfe neglected to put this example in its proper context or to note the pernicious social ramifications of such advertisements...
...activism in probing more sophisticated crime might lead-and whose white collar might be smudged-remains a great concern in Washington. Rumors persist that despite the leaks, not all of the Congressmen entangled in the Abscam net have yet been publicly identified. Thus, though all but one of the members of Congress pinpointed so far were Democrats, most Republicans cautiously refrained from making the new scandal a partisan political issue. An exception was Pennsylvania Republican Bud Shuster, chairman of the House Republican policy committee, who claimed, "History teaches that when one party is in power a long time, corruption increases...
...analysts, enamored of their computers and software and printouts, tend to mutter and mumble about technical imperfections in their still young methodology. Many admit that they erred by simply extrapolating from the trends that seemed evident as the '60s decade ended. Translation: they predicted that the present would persist into the future. Says Boris Pushkarev, vice president of New York's Regional Plan Association: "It's easy to continue trend lines. It's hard to predict changes in trends." Translation: it is hard to know what is going to happen. The '70s were especially hard...