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...severe curtailment of overtime hours for police officers. who call in sick won't be filled. Instead, patrolmen would cover twice the territory, slowing response times and possibly imperiling security in situations where there is more than one emergency on campus at the same at time...
...destructive and immoral industry which uses the bodies of women as its raw materials and the scum of humanity as its consumer base. Pornography is not art, and it is not about women's identities or personalities. Women do not have to give in to this type of sick sexual objectification. I urge the "bunnies" who applied to Playboy this week to withdraw their applications. Olive C. Langendorf...
...that designers, sick of their own tasteless japes and worried about a retail market that has been sagging since 1992, have finally decided to take notice? The fall ready-to-wear shows that began in Milan in March and ended last week in New York City showed a dramatic shift in direction. In a fashion world that has seemed, in recent years, increasingly remote, self-involved and obsessed with stunts, it was a remarkable about-face. Call it a return to elegance, to wearability, to more realistic apparel with commercial appeal. Most designers, at last, seem willing to trade...
...last story, "1000 Years (Life After God)" is a long meditation on our attempt to connect with a higher power. His narrator's willingness to embrace the spiritual is supposed to speak for us all. He writes, "My secret is that I need God that I am sick and can no longer make it alone. I need God to help me give, because I no longer seem to be capable of giving; to help me be kind..."Despite this attempt to articulate a new hope, Life After God soon begins to suffer, not from void, but from ambiguity...
Unlike the rest of the working wounded, sick writers can turn their health problems into therapeutic books. Susan Sontag's Illness as Metaphor undoubtedly helped her and thousands of readers deal with cancer. William Styron's Darkness Visible benefited its author as well as others torpedoed by depression...