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Kurz does not look at the situation through harsh, cold facts. Instead she views each divorcee on an individual basis. Her sympathetic portrait of the divorced woman's plight confronts the media's assault on the wicked welfare mother who is slowly destroying the American society...
Freshman Harvard women's tennis player Rosemary She lost 6-0, 6-1 to Lauren Nikolaus of William and Mary in the finals of the ITA Eastern Regional Championships. See tomorrow's Crimson for full coverage of both tennis team's plight at the tournament...
...bringing him, through a thicket of obstacles, back to Anne. "Persuasion" is certainly a tale of romance, in which the heroine ends up happy against all odds. But what makes it distinctively a Jane Austen story is the moral dimension of the romance; the real agony of Anne's plight is not just her lack of a husband, but her total isolation among people who neither understand nor value her character and virtue...
...certainly does need a searching debate on racially tinged issues from affirmative action to welfare dependency and crime. It is quite clear, for example, that racism alone cannot account for the sorry plight of the underclass and that traditional civil rights remedies can do nothing to solve it. But such a dialogue stands little chance of being productive if it is polluted by the nonsense D'Souza is peddling. Those who want to deal honestly with race can begin by boycotting his book--not because it's politically incorrect, but because it is just plain wrong...
Fields attacked the careless use of the word "downside," which trivial- ized the plight of the suffering woman by comparing it to the poor performance of a stock in the market...