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...play appears to regard bourgeois English society as flawed beyond repair. The only normal character is a woman who is outside conventional female roles, "respectable" class roles, and England itself. Liberation seems to lie in rejecting conventional categories of thought and learning to be true to one's self. Relationships will always be false so long as thought and conversation are used to maintain rigid power structures instead of provoking honest action...
Rabin promises to slow the growth of settlements, to increase the pace of peace talks with the Palestinians and to repair the damage Shamir's hawkish policies did to relations with the U.S. -- all easier said than done. Rabin also pledges to rearrange the nation's priorities, to focus on domestic problems rather than foreign policy issues. This emphasis on internal matters, though popular, is ironic. When Rabin was Prime Minister from 1974 to 1977, he was notorious for doing the opposite. (See related story on page...
Sears, Roebuck & Co. initially said there were no problems in its automotive- repair division. But with the repair business off 15% across the U.S. since accusations of overcharging were made three weeks ago, the company admitted it had some problems after all. In response to an 18-month investigation in California that claimed Sears "systematically" cheated customers, the company announced that it would discontinue commissions and quotas for salespeople...
...settlement imbroglio was part of a campaign to show Israeli voters that the U.S. relationship was in jeopardy under Shamir, it has done its work. In part, the President simply likes Rabin better than the stubborn Shamir; moreover, caught in a tough presidential race, Bush would like to repair his relations with American Jewish voters...
...high-rises. "People were sleeping in bathtubs to avoid gunfire," Lane says, "and until that changed, you could forget the rest." Within weeks, Lane instituted Operation Clean Sweep, which continues to this day. Backed by the police, CHA officials examine apartments looking for places in need of repair and for "unregistered guests." If "by chance we uncover weapons or drugs," Lane says with a smile, "we complain" to the trailing cops, and arrests are made on the spot. The American Civil Liberties Union sued the CHA for its warrantless searches, but Lane negotiated a consent decree that has allowed...