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...that a roommate or friend takes Zoloft or Prozac to control depression. My girlfriend does. It's also possible somebody you know takes Ventalin or Aerobid for asthma. When's the last time you heard a Ventalin joke? Mental illness is a disease, not a disgrace. Remember that. Tab>--Pete O'Connor...
This statistic seems to violate the theory that Americans will only elect their own kind. What's going on? Simply, the Senate is not the presidency. A primarily Republican state like California (led by Republican Governor Pete Wilson) that has voted against such things as public benefits for immigrants and has eliminated affirmative action from its state university system, has somehow defied all odds and elected two Jewish women to be its senators. Does this indicate that California would do the same for the presidency? No. For the same reason black representation in the House is not a good indicator...
...country. The national press and academe, two subcultures where the level of interest in affirmative action is high, undertook the debate on the subject that had never occurred when affirmative action was quietly instituted by Executive Order back in 1965. Republican politicians--Dole, Newt Gingrich and California Governor Pete Wilson, who had just been re-elected on the strength of his support for the anti-illegal-alien Proposition 187 and was now launching a presidential campaign--became champions of abolishing affirmative action. Finally, President Clinton responded to the storm rising in California by ordering up a full-scale review...
Meanwhile, Pete Wilson's presidential campaign, in which affirmative action was a central issue, fizzled. And Dole's campaign, as it moved toward the nomination, moved away from the initiative. There seem to be three reasons...
...college hear of people going into brain-damaging comas from alcohol. The alcohol made you decorate the sidewalks and wake up with a headache. Pot merely gave you the munchies, guaranteeing employment for the pizza business. Legalize it, tax it and that will help to lower the deficit. PETE HANCE Fogelsville, Pennsylvania...