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Solo said in his speech that he was pleased with the way the school's teachers and students responded to what he called "a profound loss of people helping neighbors in our nation...
Rarely has the spouse of a presidential candidate been so closely scrutinized and criticized by the political opposition. To a large extent, the controversy swirling around Hillary Clinton today reflects a profound ambivalence toward the changing role of women in American society over the past few decades. Hillary, who personifies many of the advances made by a cutting-edge generation of women, finds herself held up against what is probably the most tradition-bound and antiquated model of American womanhood: the institution of the First Lady...
...symbol of the Ivory Coast's profound cultural disjunction is a huge edifice that rises from flat green fields at Yamoussoukro, Houphouet's native village: the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, which cost some $175 million, a gesture of lifeless grandiosity. Amid the grazing goats and the lagoons, the basilica looks like an ill-shapen mushroom, massive from a distance and strangely sterile up close. Ismail Serageldin, director of the technical department at the World Bank, observed during a recent Cairo lecture dealing with culture shock that there were "certain symbols of a society dissociated from its own people...
Every struggling "serious" novelist fills with indignation (and more than little jealously) when he sees Jimmy Stewart's poetry and Shirley MacLaine's philosophy of life outselling his own profound book. Well, if you can't beat em, join 'em: become a celebrity yourself...
...agreement will bind together three major economies -- two mature and wealthy, the third relatively poor but in the throes of rapid and profound modernization. Building upon a similar agreement between the U.S. and Canada that took effect in 1989, the expanded pact will create a $6.4 trillion megamarket of 363 million consumers. But it will also challenge the three governments with the prospect of far-reaching social dislocations. What worries politicians in all three nations is, Will the trade-off be worth...