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HUNTING COCKROACHES A vibrant farce by Polish Emigre Janusz Glowacki evoking the plight of refugee intellectuals: an actress who cannot overcome her glottal-stop accent and her novelist husband who looks for his lost sense of context and insight by puzzling over the rectilinear shapes of Western states...
...sure, Boesky is a long way from the plight of the homeless men he has been helping. He still lives in a luxury apartment a few blocks from his company's headquarters on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. In the firm's elegant suite of offices, his personal secretary continues to answer the telephone, while a guard hovers near a reception area decorated in gold colors and Far / Eastern art. "Boesky now uses the office as a private club to meet with his lawyers," says a source familiar with the investor's activities. A large renovated farmhouse on Boesky...
Middle-class battered women are likely to suffer their plight in dutiful silence. Says Psychologist Mary Donahue of Rockville, Md.: "Often this is the quintessential good girl, bright, with some education, overprotected and without a particular career path." Generally such women give themselves over to their spouse's needs, subsuming their identities to their husband's -- and often losing their self-esteem in the process. Invariably they blame themselves for their mate's abusive behavior. Once, when her physician-husband smacked her across the face, Amy, 30, of Brooklyn, N.Y., remembers saying, "Honey, let me give you a doughnut. Maybe...
Kennedy compared the plight of contemporary disabled people to that of Blacks in the 1950's. He said that the disabled are discriminated against by being placed in separate schools and denied access to restaurants that lack ramps or elevators. Both groups suffer from "outdated policies that keep people back," Kennedy said...
...revealed with painful clarity the wide gulf that exists in Cambridge between developers and activists for the homeless. With the demolition of Tent City and the arrest of 10 activists and homeless persons, MIT announced its stance on the issue. MIT said that while it is sympathetic to the plight of the homeless, the problem is not the institution's responsibility. MIT claimed that the eviction was motivated by a concern for the health of the residents of Tent City. But the institution refused to negotiate with Tent City before the eviction and discussions since then have produced nothing. Representatives...