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Most Americans--mindful of the nature of a geisha's work--react with disdain and shock. Women whose sole purpose is to entertain men seem outrageously chauvinist. It's not a new discovery that Japan is a male-dominated society, and Dalby certainly does not deny that, on the surface, the job of being a geisha might appear degrading. But she enters the world of the geisha and discovers--surprisingly--a world of women with a strong sense of independence, self-respect and love for the art which is their job. In short, geisha lead an intriguing life that offers...
...curious, to say the least. Congress has significantly raised the level of aid to El Salvador over the past three years; last week the Senate passed a measure providing $62 million in emergency military funds for El Salvador with barely a change in the final White House request. The sole legislative action in the Lebanon episode was to pass a compromise war-powers resolution giving Reagan wide latitude for 18 months...
...should be obvious to all but the reactionary Reagan Board that Harvard consolidated personnel operations at the Medical Campus and Holyoke Center for the sole purpose of destroying the union organizing effort. The University realized that the union did not have the resources to organize the Main Campus at the same time as the Medical Area, and that merely by shifting certain personnel operations of the Medical Area to Holyoke Center it could secure a Board ruling requiring a university-wide election, thus thwarting any successful organizing drive...
...respect, Super Week made the choice a bit more clear: it left just one candidate still competing for votes with Hart and Mondale. Six rivals had hit the hustings against them in February; by the end of last week the sole survivor was Jesse Jackson. He needed to win 20% of the ballots in at least one primary to hold on to his federal matching funds, and just made it, taking 21% in Georgia. In Alabama, he took 19%. Jackson has no chance to win the nomination, but he could take important black votes away from Mondale...
...travelers charged long-distance calls to their home phones. But so many calls were being billed to unwary customers that operators now usually phone a person at the number given to get approval. Says Scott Smith, a spokesman for San Francisco-based Pacific Bell: "Credit cards are becoming the sole source of telephone fraud...