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...classmates that has resulted from their exposure to feminism and their attempts to find fulfillment in a society that drastically changed its outlook toward women in the Sixties and Seventies. Women graduating from college 25 years ago were trapped, McIntosh says, because they were taught that the "public sphere" of professions, public service, and academics was a male realm, and thus Inappropriate for a young woman. This sphere, however, was considered inherently more important than the "private sphere" of home and family...
...that they have not only the slogan of Marxist-Leninist internationalism on their side to justify an invasion, but 36 years of precedents as well. Many of these men, after all, have careers that stretch back to 1945 and the wartime Allied conference at Yalta, which established a Soviet sphere of influence in Eastern Europe. In Joseph Stalin's eyes, Poland was the most important part of that sphere because it is a buffer between Russia and Germany...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979 was, in one significant and ominous sense, something quite new: the Soviet army's first sustained advance beyond the sphere of influence established in 1945. In another sense, however, the invasion of Afghanistan was consistent with Soviet behavior since World War II. It demonstrated again the U.S.S.R.'s proclivity for using brute force as the best way to ensure an "absence of danger," and for filling vacuums created by the limits of Western diplomacy and alliances. In ordering that invasion, the Soviet leaders calculated correctly that they were not risking...
...environment where plants refuse to flower, flame burns in a sphere instead of a cone, and mice are too befuddled to reproduce, man is bound to find life uncomfortable...
Today, with a relative nuclear "parity" established between the United States and the Soviet Union, such blatant uses of nuclear weapons as threats are not longer credible. Instead, the concept of nuclear superiority is important only in the sphere of perceptions, and any new weapons programs are used to enhance the United States' image of international strength. It should go without saying, however, that his pursuit of a fictitious superiority is an extremely expensive and dangerous substitute for diplomacy and is a poor rationale for increased military spending...