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When politics is a battle to earn votes, the Democrats can ill afford to turn away a large percentage of the American electorate. Over thirty House of Representatives Democrats representing seventeen different states consistently vote against abortion. On any given life issue, as many as 70 House Democrats will vote against abortion. According to a June 2002 Gallup poll, only 25 percent of Americans support the Democratic Party’s plank that abortion should be available on demand. The Senate’s refusal to bring the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act for a vote before the election brought...
...titular "one hundred demons" are actually seventeen vignettes from the author's life, mostly from her childhood. Treating the book as something of a Zen exercise, Barry has claimed that, with no determined direction, each piece began as a word or phrase on a notecard. The somewhat random subjects of each story bear this out: Dancing, Hate, San Francisco, Dogs, Girlness, etc. "Dancing," for instance, tells of Barry's childhood enthusiasm for hula dancing. With fantastic powers of memory (or perhaps imagination) Barry recreates the near-hallucinatory, intensely-observed world of childhood. The hula teacher is a "middle-aged white...
...DIED. WALTER ANNENBERG, 94, publishing magnate, philanthropist and art connoisseur; in Wynnewood, Pa. After inheriting the Philadelphia Inquirer from his father, he founded two hit magazines, Seventeen in 1944 and TV Guide in 1953. One of the world's wealthiest men (estimated net worth: $4 billion), Annenberg served as ambassador to the Court of St. James's under Nixon and sometimes used his journalistic clout to settle political and personal scores. He once barred his TV stations from airing a documentary critical of Nixon. Among his gifts: a $1 billion collection of Impressionist paintings to New York City's Metropolitan...
Annenberg enjoyed an immensely successful business career and public life. He inherited The Philadelphia Inquirer and two racing publications from his father, Moses L. Annenberg, and proceeded to build on his holdings. His Triangle Publications became a media power and included such publications as Seventeen Magazine and TV Guide...
...Since the influence of great wealth seems to rise with its size and momentum, a few examples will make the point. In 1982, the wealth of the thirty richest U.S. individuals and families ranged from $500 million up to $8.6 billion. By 1999, seventeen years later, the range was $7 billion to $85 billion, a tenfold increase. In 1980, the ten highest compensated U.S. executives had an average annual pay package of $3.4 million, but by 2001 that had skyrocketed to an average of $155 million - and this while the typical American household in the middle quintile barely stays ahead...