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...served most recently as director of the Women's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, where she was the chief advocate for working women in the United States. Dennis, who resigned the post this fall, says her top priority as director of the Women's Bureau was to ease the lives of welfare mothers who are either employed or are looking for work...
...came at the party plenum two weeks ago. In a blitzkrieg shake-up of the leadership, Gorbachev named KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov, 65, head of a new commission on legal reform. Deputy KGB chairman Vladimir Kryuchkov, 64, leap-frogged over two more senior officials to get Chebrikov's vacant post...
...author finds the East bloc boring ("Imagine a world where everything is designed by the post office") and the night life especially disappointing. One club features a stripper doing the "Dance of a Couple of Veils." In the even less developed parts of the world, O'Rourke predicts a "festival of Malthusianism." On the up side, he gives two cheers for Western civilization, "the first in history to show even the slightest concern for average, undistinguished, none-too-commendable people like us." It may not be what the Founding Fathers had in mind, but neither did they envision that their...
...Harvard men's soccer team was in a do-or-die situation at Boston University last Wednesday--win and keep post-season hopes alive, lose and stay in the race for an NCAA...
Mahfouz's writing is important to the study of post-war Egypt, Mahdi said, because his descriptions give students insights into the turmoil of Egypt in the 1940s and 1950s...