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...baby boomers in the audience began to shift in their seats. And she continued. "I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion," she said, and then she told them why, in uncompromising terms. For about 1.3 seconds there was complete silence, then applause built and swept across the room. But not everyone: the President and the First Lady, the Vice President and Mrs. Gore, looked like seated statues at Madame Tussaud's, glistening in the lights and moving not a muscle. She didn't stop there either, but went on to explain why artificial birth control...
Powerful currents of the subconscious run beneath Eisenberg's winsome surfaces. Most of her characters are swept along, but some, like Anna, the girl who imagines the Holocaust, dive right in. "How else, except in the clarity of dreams," she says, "are you supposed to see the world around...
...student buying the alcohol. Bars' enforcement of the drinking age can be lax, false IDs are common, and legal-age friends are often willing to buy the drinks and bring them back to the table. In fact, raising the legal drinking age from 18 to 21, a movement that swept all 50 states over the past two decades, may actually have made the binging problem worse. Instead of drinking in well-monitored settings, the young often experiment in private homes and bars, where there are few checks in place to deter dangerous practices. And research suggests that making alcohol illegal...
...departure of De Klerk, who has been described as South Africa's Gorbachev because he began a reform process that swept him from power, is unlikely to have any effect on the powerful majority commanded by the ANC. But, says De Klerk, a reformed and renewed all-race National Party has a leading role to play in the restructuring of the political landscape in South Africa. There is a belief in the opposition camp, meanwhile, that like De Klerk, the National Party could become a victim of its own reforms...
...Soros began to build his philanthropic empire. One of his first ventures was in his native Hungary, where he supplied the country with photocopiers, an inspired application of technology to fight censorship. As the democracy movement gained momentum throughout Europe, Soros swept in to fund it, at times acting as a one-man central bank for struggling countries. He established philanthropic offices all over Eastern Europe. Nominally centered in New York City under the direction of Aryeh Neier, the former head of Human Rights Watch, Soros' network of foundations in 31 countries employs about 1,300 people. Soros has spent...