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...decline of Washington's influence over Western Europe, on the other hand, has been the gradual and inevitable result of its great postwar success. America's involvement in Europe was a welcome response to Soviet aggressiveness, not the cause of it. By helping rebuild its allies, the U.S. proved the strengths of its economic and political systems. Learning to deal with the robust partners that resulted has been a fitful process but a healthy one. The result is that now, as the cold war thaws, the U.S. can feel comfortable sharing with its allies the responsibilities, and financial burdens...
...result of such programs, combined with Black demand for them, is a conservative backlash. These policies have fostered the idea that Blacks will eternally require more preferential treatment (i.e. are innately inferior) and that Blacks will never develop the work ethic of American political culture, among other of its aspects. In the workplace and the university, affirmative action leaves the nagging suspicion among all involved that Blacks are taking the place of more qualified whites...
However, Piercy's attempt to integrate these themes falls short. The result is that the characters themselves are shallow and unlikeable. Piercy's thoughtful writing and believable dialogue are only barely enough to keep us reading to find out what happens when a fight between Dinah and Susan ruptures the 10-year triangle...
While stopping short of reversing Roe, Rehnquist seemed to be inviting a test case that might result in its overthrow. "The goal of constitutional adjudication," said the Chief Justice, "is surely not to remove inexorably 'politically divisive' issues from the ambit of the legislative process, whereby the people through their elected representatives deal with matters of concern to them...
...abortion was slowly being legalized, state by state, under varying rules, amid moderate controversy. Roe told abortion supporters and opponents alike that it was all or nothing at all, a Manichaean battle in which compromise was impossible. A generation of social-issue conservatives was politicized and mobilized. As a result, today's Republican Party officially endorses a human-life amendment that would not merely return the abortion issue to the states but would constitutionally ban abortion except to save the mother's life...