Word: things
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is probably some danger in looking to a situation comedy for serious cultural messages, but Alex's behavior struck me as pretty realistic. It has become standard in this nation for us to judge intelligence--an extremely subjective thing--on a very objective and structural scale of grades, standardized test scores and academic honors...
...Alliance Party's Lenora Fulani with 201,430. "None of the above" came in eleventh by earning 6,923 ballots nationwide. Trailing the pack: Third World Assembly nominee John Martin with 229 votes. Despite his low tally, Paul insists, "we don't get discouraged. The only thing that counts is whether what we say is true." All told, the minor-party candidates collected only 0.9% of the vote, a bit better than the 0.7% they garnered...
...other foster parents look to Denise, who is the sickest child, and Tina, who is the oldest, and see possible futures for their children. A troubling prospect, either way, and this is the remarkable thing: they risk loving other people's children in the foreknowledge that they may see them...
There is one other remarkable thing about these families. By 18 months, children normally lose the antibodies acquired from their mothers, and about half of them become HIV-negative. "I was so happy I could've gone and shouted on the rooftops," says one mother, whose child tested negative. "But you can't." The practice, when children turn out healthy, is to move them away from the AIDS foster families into permanent homes, making room for more AIDS babies. Thus what the foster parents risk is loving the children and having to give them away, or keeping them to love...
...first thing a party does after it loses an election is round up the usual suspects. The Democrats' postmortem of the Dukakis debacle has produced a fairly standard list of fall guys. It starts with...