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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Interspersed between Edwards' adventures lie general comments about the role of women in politics. Women, she finds, are more honest than their male counterparts who in general enter politics for money and status rather than to fight for causes. Edwards, hardly a modest sort, quotes Eleanor Roosevelt quoting her in the former First Lady's Ladies of Courage: "If I didn't have the crusading spirit I'd get the hell out and go home...
Even more important, it would protect illegal immigrants from exploitation by making them legal. As of now, illegal aliens form a cheap, defenseless pool of workers, unprotected by American labor laws. As Secretary of Labor F. Ray Marshall has written, "Undocumented workers are subject to blackmail of every conceivable sort. If they complain to their employers about their paltry wages and their unsafe working conditions, they run the risk of being turned in by those owners to the INS." Almost slaves now, these people would gain, from Carter's proposal, the rights of American workers...
...repair work on the car. The $500 figure, of course, does not include any "unusual" expenses--such as crashes or minor damage. Aronson, Medenica and Herne all dipped into their own pockets throughout the season to keep the team on the road, but now they are seeking some sort of sponsorship for the next season...
...Bobby Fallon, does not blossom into a sweet romance with a girl who becomes very beautiful when she takes off those big glasses of hers. Rather, Fallon falls in love with his mother to set the stage for an incestuous relationship that reveals nothing but perversity, lacking in any sort of meaning, and leaving the book without much purpose or plot...
Apparently, Hamill started out to write a novel about a boxer, realizing after 60 pages that "what it all was really about was incest." A few profanities and he was right in the middle of the Oedipal ring. So he took the story to its logical end, sort...