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FAMILY PICTURES by Sue Miller (Harper & Row; $19.95). In a novel about shifting values and resilient affections, the author of The Good Mother explores the impact of an autistic child on the complex web of family life...
...angered the civil rights community with a strong stance against the pending Kennedy-Hawkins legislation, which would make it easier to prove job discrimination. Calling the measure a "quota bill," he has refused to compromise on his opposition to language that would give women and minorities the right to sue for damages. Ralph Neas, director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, says Thornburgh's "statement and positions have been extremely harsh...
...dozen organizations have spurned the NEA outright or formally objected and threatened to sue. While many of the grants being turned down are relatively small -- the $49,500 to the Oregon troupe is half of 1% of its $10 million annual budget -- winning NEA funds has traditionally served as a legitimizing sign of merit and has led to larger donations from corporations, foundations and patrons...
...classified State Department study of French-Canadian nationalism speculated that the secession of Quebec might lead the other nine provinces to sue for union with the U.S. Some Americanized Canadian businessmen dreamed of the ultimate merger. But the author of the report called the dissolution of Canada, even if it doubled the size and vastly increased the natural resources of the U.S., a "worst-case scenario...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: Janice Castro, Howard G. Chua-Eoan, William R. Doerner, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Nancy R. Gibbs, Richard Lacayo, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Michael S. Serrill, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Richard Zoglin...