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Ross Perot, master of folk-isms, did not have a heartening answer, either. He says he understands the plight of minorities because he is a man in a family filled with women. His comparison was ridiculous. By reducing the issue to his family and joking about his wife's power, he belittled the lack of diversity in high levels of government...
Addiction is the operative metaphor here. Obviously, money spent on the military, as much as $10 trillion over the duration of the cold war, was money not spent on developing new technologies for consumer use, on retraining workers for domestic production or on social-welfare programs to ease the plight of the dislocated and unemployed. So what is to be done with 3 million workers in the military industry and nothing but a pinched, depleted domestic economy awaiting them? Just one more fix, is the addict's witless, blubbering solution -- one more useless, death-dealing, high...
...from being one-dimensional, Wallace-Crabbe also uses his poetry to make a political statement about the plight of Australia's indigenous population. "I am particularly concerned with the culture and existence of Aboriginal peoples and minority groups," he said. Two of the poems he recited focused on Aboriginals. One was a fantasy about past, better times; the other a harsher picture of the reality Aboriginals face today...
Gregory's plight attracted national attention and even reached the podium of the G.O.P. convention, where conservative Pat Buchanan cited the case in his attack on Hillary Clinton, implying Gregory's lawsuit was an assault on the American family and could unleash a flood of frivolous litigation by willful children against their parents. Finally, after a parade of witnesses attested to his mother's less than perfect parenting, it was Gregory's small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child...
...national assembly. Political leaders seem convinced that a move to democracy, perhaps next year, is the only hope for peace and a better future. Peace in both Mali and Niger is threatened by Tuareg rebels, pastoral nomads who have suffered from years of drought and feel that their plight has been ignored by their central governments...