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...good news is that huge strides have been made to improve the plight of special-needs students. "The question now being asked is how can we do it, as opposed to should we do it," says Judith Heumann, U.S. Assistant Secretary of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. The bad news is that the Maynards plan to move away from the farm that has been in their family for 120 years as soon as Jonathan has completed his program in Connecticut. "It's not getting better. We can't possibly bring him back," says Cathy Maynard. "We're lepers...
Certainly, as even Williams stresses, our moral sentiments have lots of upside, including a heartening plasticity. They can be deployed less self-servingly than they were "designed" to be deployed. Darwin himself often felt pangs of concern about the plight of slaves, even though there were none in England to reciprocate his empathy. And consider the flush of compassion we feel upon witnessing, via TV, famine that is a hemisphere away. When moved by such images to donate money or canned goods--the rough opposite of greed and gluttony--we are in some Darwinian sense "misusing" our equipment of reciprocal...
...same should be true with AIDS. Aside from the handful of cases derived from using infected needles or blood transfusions, AIDS overwhelmingly is acquired through abnormal sexual behavior. It's logical, then, that people sympathize with the victims' plight but refuse to adopt the agenda of gayrights advocates...
...under any of the several U.N. resolutions. It is significant that America's staunch Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait did not permit their territory to be used for unleashing missile attacks on Iraq. It is amazing that the world community does not give a thought to the plight of the civilian Iraqi population. VARGHESE POOVAKKATTU Herne, Germany...
Though the life of none of the actresses strictly parallels her character's, Midler (still on her first marriage) says she relates to the first wife's plight. "I always read the papers, and I keep up with all the great divorces, and I am as chagrined and appalled as the next person," she declares. The never married Keaton has been linked in the past with Warren Beatty and Woody Allen, both of whom have gone through their share of women. But Keaton reports that her romances were "nothing like in this movie." Hawn, longtime roommate of Kurt Russell...