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...proposed limited elections in the Palestinian territories as a step toward Middle East peace. That is not how the Palestinians there regard it. Last week more than 80 leaders from the West Bank and Gaza issued a statement rejecting the proposal as "a maneuver for the media" designed to sidestep the Palestine Liberation Organization and "ignore our political legitimacy as well as our legitimate aspirations...
...light of this new evidence, Congress should appoint a committee to fully investigate the administration's attempts to sidestep the Congressional restrictions, with the possibility that impeachable offenses may have been committed. The Justice Department should also investigate whether there are possible criminal charges that can be brought against former President Reagan...
...single-warhead Midgetman (a misnomer for a missile weighing 37,000 lbs.) would sidestep the vulnerability problem by being deployed on hardened, tractor-drawn launchers. In times of crisis, the launchers could be dispersed over thousands of square miles on and off military reservations. But while military planners consider the Midgetman more survivable in a surprise attack than the MX, it is much more expensive: $39 billion for 500 missiles carrying 500 warheads...
Onstage, Legs tries to sidestep this problem by making Diamond a frustrated entertainer who gets into crime as a way of financing himself on Broadway. The character cannot be taken seriously, and neither can Peter Allen as an actor. A campy night-club entertainer who penned his own single-entendre lyrics for this show ("If you love me, let me see your knockers"), he brings a pervasive tone of self-mockery to every moment and is ludicrously dispassionate as a roguish ladies' man. Like most performers who customarily work solo, he seems unable to engage the audience in any guise...
While the lack of women's leadership has long been the topic for heated discussion, there has been little progress made. Women's losses can always be attributed to their personal characteristics or the specific situations they face. But these characterizations sidestep a crucial fact of our society--that the underlying perceptions of and biases against women who achieve may be undercutting them all along, regardless of their specific attributes...