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...fictional and poetic personae--is to see the feminist motto "the personal is political" in a new light. Atwood once described herself in an interview as a "de facto feminist," taking the position that every intelligent woman is a feminist--but she can also argue from the standpoint of a crusader for women's rights, a poet, a novelist, a pioneering critic of Canadian literature, a Canadian nationalist, and an Amnesty International activist. The essays in Second Words emanate from all these Atwoods. But the tone and approach of each essay strikes one note over and over again--the personal...
...Hodel last week: "Politically, it's a tough issue because it is a natural reaction to say, 'My gosh, these giants are merging and there must be something bad about that.' But I don't see that it has any significant effect from an energy standpoint...
Shultz conceded to the Senate Budget Committee that "the situation in Lebanon has deteriorated from our standpoint." Yet he argued that the U.S. had been right in trying to establish "a unified, stable and sovereign Lebanon." He placed most blame, perhaps rather naively, on Syria for refusing to withdraw its forces after Israel had agreed to do so in its May 17 accord with Lebanon...
Many praise the new development. "For a lot of people, the Computer Science concentration makes a lot more sense than Applied Mark from the standpoint of that the title is more closely related to what they're doing," says Steven J. Sistare '86. He adds. "The department is shopping up a lot more quickly than you'd think...
...deficits, and growing dependence on Washington for mass-transit support. In 1975, the first fiscal year in which operating subsidies were available, capital grants totaled $1.28 billion and operating grants totaled $142.5 million. By 1981 those figures had ballooned to $2.94 billion and $1.13 billion respectively. "From a local standpoint, federal mass-transit aid is cheap," says Gerald Miller, acting director of the transportation program at the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank. "You can put up a couple of hundred million dollars and get billions back...