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...With her third novel, McDermott secures her reputation as a mesmerizing and innovative storyteller. In the haunted world that she conjures, dead relatives command greater attention than the living. It is a measure of the author's formidable skills that she vividly evokes the misery of Momma Towne and her four stepdaughters without suffocating the reader in their chronic gloom. While the backdrop is one of complaint, cryptic exchanges -- "That again? Are we rehashing that again?" -- are enough to remind us of the women's litany. Their oppressive unhappiness is artfully offset by the vitality of the three youngest Townes...
...middle-class tax cut, but he's raised over 100 taxes in Arkansas' and 'He talks about improving education, but Arkansas' pupils rank near the bottom on test scores.' " According to Bond, we'll also see spots that "accentuate the stature gap," like, "In the next decade 10 Third World countries will have nuclear weapons. Who better can deal with a madman with nukes, George Bush or Bill Clinton?" "Foreign policy will be an issue if we make it an issue," says Stone, "and we will. You always play to your strength, and you play it over and over...
Calling the current trend in government the "third wave" of democracy-the first two coming before World War I and after World War II--Huntington predicted that some authoritarian regimes may take hold in the coming years before a fourth wave of democracy hits...
Many of these students asked the University for a separate "third world" race center similar to the Hillel center where they could seek refuge form what they deemed "the racism and insensitivity of some of the white other nonminority members of the Harvard community." The alternative and special structure of the Harvard Foundation was recommended by a student/Faculty Committee that had investigated race relations problems and solutions on other Ivy League and Public college campuses...
...There are cities in the U.S. -- including a couple in Connecticut -- that have infant-mortality rates that exceed those of Third World countries. Our state has as good a record of compassion as any as to how it regards the frail elements of society. And yet the Connecticut department of children and youth services -- that's our children -- is under a court order to improve the quality of care for foster children. The department of correction is also under court order on prison overcrowding. . . I can go down the list. We used to exceed what the Federal Government...