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...that Al Gore has an edge over George W. Bush on the big domestic issues. A majority of voters agree with Gore that tax cuts should be modest and the budget surplus should go to save Social Security and Medicare, that health coverage should be expanded and women should retain their right to abortion. But on at least one traditional piece of Democratic turf, Bush is sure he can beat Gore. Public education "is a bright and dividing line in this campaign," Bush said repeatedly last week. He called it "a defining issue" and (in case anyone missed the point...
...Aida is a feisty, headstrong heroine in the line of Mulan and Pocahontas; the bad guys dress in fascistic black trench coats. (And while the Nubian slaves are mostly African Americans, the Egyptians seem to have acquired a blond gene.) Those Disney magicians have even found a way to retain the opera's tragic ending and still have everyone live happily ever after...
...make ends meet, Albion and his partners serve as consultants to businesses that seek to attract and retain similarly passionate employees...
...Fonda peppered the speech with personal stories. She cited Gilligan's theory that women retain weak voices to remain in a submissive position and then recalled how she was shocked by her own soft voice looking back at past movies...
...that women, upon divorce, must return to their husbands any property they received at marriage--a proviso that was justified by the prophet Muhammad's decision to allow a woman to leave her marriage if she returned a garden she had been given by her husband. Moreover, men will retain the right to appeal a divorce indefinitely. Yet while such compromises may be undesirable from an purely egalitarian standpoint, it would be apt for those with a vested interest in change to realize that religious interpretation may currently be the most successful vehicle for reform in Islamic nations. Incremental reforms...