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...also saw what nice, respectable girls can do. This is the message carried by many of the etchings known as the Caprichos, and even by his early decorative tapestry designs of the 1770s and 1780s, before illness and deafness turned him into the stricken, black Goya, haunted by death and disaster, who speaks with such appalled and appalling clarity to our century. The Straw Mannikin, his tapestry design of 1791-92, can be read as a country amusement--four girls tossing a straw-stuffed mannequin of a petimetre, a male dandy dressed in the French fashion, up and down...
...time for mothers to suffer, helplessly, desperately. When Palestinian and Israeli societies are being ripped apart by the testosterone and machismo of wartime, mothers are struggling to keep alive their nurturing role amid the loss, grief and fear. "In the stricken faces of mothers--Palestinian mothers and Israeli mothers--the entire world is witnessing the agonizing cost of this conflict," President Bush said last week. It is a time when children can't be sent to school without the worry that some bomber or soldier will take their lives. It is a time for a woman to relax only when...
...future doctors, we want to show that we are not indifferent to the people {stricken] locally or abroad,” said Margot L. Albeck, one of 40 Harvard Medical School first-years who made the trip to Government Center. “We do not want to be bystanders as this crisis unravels...
...movies like Erin Brockovich and A Civil Action, we see lawyers (or in Erin Brockovich, a legal secretary) bravely sacrificing their careers and their financial resources to sue evil, polluting corporations on behalf of cancer-stricken children. Naturally, we root for the families and for their plucky lawyers over the attorneys for the corporations, who are portrayed as either wily and corrupt or idiotic and corrupt. While the movies end differently, we’re meant to see that justice involves large punitive damages for the families of the sick children...
...only every plaintiff in every personal injury lawsuit really were cancer-stricken as a result of some company’s misdeeds, these movies might be an accurate picture of the current legal system. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Everyone is familiar with the stereotype of personal injury lawyers as ambulance chasers, but few people realize just how pervasively these lawyers are damaging American business. In this age of Enron, decent, profitable companies are being driven out of business by the costs of settling thousands of spurious lawsuits...