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...equal numbers. Never mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear future...
Feminist scholars are also questioning long-held assumptions in other areas. Catharine MacKinnon, who championed legal redress for sexual harassment on the job, is reframing the debate on pornography. MacKinnon, a visiting professor at Yale Law School, maintains that the central concern is not obscenity but sexual discrimination, because pornography hurts women and violates their civil rights. In a controversial stance that has pitted her against many feminists and civil libertarians, she favors granting injunctions against pornographers who "traffic in materials that can be proven to subordinate women...
THESE facts make the Nunn/McCurdy plan all the more compelling. A revolutionary program that can be accepted by a majority in Congress is needed to redress the problems with the current system. Participation in the Citizens Corps may be the only way in which some young people can afford higher education. Moreover, participating students will not have to find other sources of income or have lingering debts plaguing their future; the money they earn is up front and can pay for major portions of tuition costs at most colleges and universities. National service vouchers redress the regressive impact of current...
...have stated that the problems involving race and sport cannot be solved by affirmative action, the major tool to redress racial inequality in American society...
...consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan is that a successful President takes "a principled position and stays with it," Bush's own success may depend on yet another 180 degrees turn...