Word: preferments
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Wellesley protestors have been called "immature" and "childish." They are not; this is not just a "generational thing." If some Wellesley women define themselves through their wedding ring, that is their option. If some prefer another route, that, too, is their option. The key is the choice between them. To invite a woman who opposes such choices is where Wellesley went wrong...
Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and heterosexuals who support gay/bisexual rights are not presupposing that oppression suffered because of homo/bisexuality is exactly the same as oppression suffered because of skin color. Rather we point out that the bigots who prefer we keep our sexuality "behind closed doors" are close cousins of the bigots who prefer that different racial and ethnic groups stay on their respective "sides of the town...
Talk to a lot of kids Lisette's age; few will say they are harmed by rock. And few are, according to a study commissioned by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development. Children do spend hours each day with music. But most prefer mainstream music, and whatever style they listen to, few are tempted by the siren call to excess. "Kids take it in stride," says Stanford University's Donald F. Roberts, who helped conduct the research. The survey should reassure parents that somehow their child will survive pop culture about as successfully as they...
This may be an idea whose time has not yet come, but it is worth thinking about. American Government officials shudder when they do so. They would prefer to rely on traditional diplomacy aimed at defusing regional tensions and restricting the proliferation of nuclear technology. The trouble is, the Iraqi weapons program is moving along much more briskly than the peace process. Some experts predict that Saddam will achieve his heart's desire within three years. When that happens, the U.S. President had better have something more to say than "Well, we tried...
...matter currently of greatest moment in Israel, Hartman is anything but a dreamer. "I am not Gandhi," he says. "I know many Palestinians would prefer me dead. Nevertheless, I can live with a demilitarized Palestinian state because a Palestine without military power can satisfy Israel's security needs." But real peace, Hartman knows, will be impossible until the Palestinians realize that the Jews have come home permanently, that they are indigenous to their land, that they are more than a post-Holocaust phenomenon imposed out of the West's guilty conscience. This is why Hartman is so dismayed...