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Halberstam traces responsibility for the plight of the U.S. auto industry largely to cupidity and arrogance in Detroit. Sheltered by cheap oil and the absence of foreign rivals, the auto magnates typified by the Ford family flourished in an environment that amounted to a "parody of competition" after World War II. Until the '70s, Halberstam says, the cir- cumstances of automaking's Big Three amounted to a state of "shared monopoly" in which innovation was smothered, and warnings of dire change on the economic horizon were ignored...
...Yale Women of the Ivy League offers no more than obscure references to puberty anxiety, body image and isolation. Except for two or three poems which do not deal with the anguished plight of womanhood, these women tell us that being female means being miserable, misled and misunderstood...
...North House resident who ordered her ticketin July had the much coveted pass, but not a date.So after asking "about 100 boys" Saira Moini '87decided to advertise her plight at the HolyokeCenter 350th ticket office...
Morality has never been her strong suit, but Madonna's new hit Papa Don't Preach is nonetheless receiving the blessing of right-to-life organizations. Set to a snappy dance beat, the tune relates the plight of a young unmarried woman who decides to go ahead and have her baby despite the consequences. "The song points up the fact that somebody needs to help these girls with their painful decision to give life," says Susan Carpenter-McMillan of Feminists for Life. Pro-choice forces are singing back. The lyric doesn't "show what it really means...
Editor Hunnel has had a few cranky calls complaining that he is ignoring Jesus, but he sees no way out of his plight. "I'm imaged to death. We shot it from the air. We shot it in the daytime. We shot it at night. What else...