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...awakens, the drunken lighthouse keeper believe it to be a ship come to rescue him from his delusional exile. A teenage girl believes it as an omen of a new beau. The new parish priest sees it as the Isle of Skellig Michael, drifted from his native Ireland to remind him of his lost love and his current isolation...
...critics like Upton Sinclair were quick to remind America that industrialization did not create a rosy, costless modernity. Children exploited in factories, unsafe working conditions, shoddy products and questionable business practices-all these accusations, and more, fostered debate and critical examination of the new cities thriving on mechanization...
...announcing seemingly every favorable economic statistic that comes out or in his speeches, starting with one this week at the Detroit Economic Club. But Gore may not always want to be inseparable from the economy. If the Millennium Bug sparks a recession, as various economists predict, Republicans aim to remind voters that the high-tech Veep who popularized the term "information superhighway"will have had eight years in which to tackle the problem. "The Year 2000 problem and the Year 2000 campaign are going to be the same thing," says Jim Lucier of Americans for Tax Reform, a group that...
Weakening these residential communities without offering an alternative is problematic. We remind the University that life for students of color at Harvard can be qualitatively different than it is for their white counterparts. This has been particularly true during the last ten years where certain Harvard professors have questioned the intellectual capacity of minorities and challenged their "right" to be at this institution. The administration must understand that on a campus with astonishingly few tenured professors of color, coupled with a limited number of minority students, the ability to come together physically is very important...
...appalling deaths of four innocent children and their courageous teacher in Jonesboro, Ark. [THE JONESBORO SHOOTINGS, April 6], remind us of the terrible price we all pay for the lax gun laws in our nation. We must look closely at children's access to firearms. Gun advocates repeat the mantra that if youngsters are properly trained in firearm use, they won't shoot people. The boys accused of the Jonesboro shootings were well trained, and they killed five people and wounded 10 others. You can teach kids how to use guns, but you can't train them...