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...news of that exchange circulated, the conservative faithful in Houston were pummeling moderates who had sought to soften the party's rigid pro-life platform position. The pro-choice faction had been led to believe that they would get at least a token concession, a sign the party would lean at least a little toward the "big tent" concept its late chairman, Lee Atwater, had formulated. But the platform drafters not only flattened the pro-choice faction; they also took a hard line against gay rights, gave short shrift to environmentalists and called for an indefinite moratorium on new business...
...cannot be restricted to what U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali crudely referred to as a "rich man's war." It logically implies that U.N. intervention in Eastern Europe should be matched by similar action in other catastrophic conflicts: in Somalia, Ethiopia, Burundi, Burma and elsewhere. By the same token, this new world cannot be managed unilaterally by the U.S. but must instead work from the consent of all major powers around the globe. It would have to be supported by their armies and their treasuries...
...great weaknesses of Harvard's undergraduate education are that classes are large and impersonal and that contact with faculty is all often minimal. First-year seminars are only a token effort to change this, and many students who apply for these seminars are rejected...
...seemingly every family, one adult child takes on an undue share of care giving for aged parents while another accepts only token responsibility lest it get in the way of his or her dreams. Although the moral issues involved might seem straightforward, Arthur Miller made them rich and intriguingly complex in THE PRICE, his 1968 tale of two brothers dividing the petty sticks of furniture that constitute their father's estate. The play returned to Broadway last week in an impeccable staging, with film veteran Hector Elizondo (Pretty Woman) giving the performance of his career as the resentful, duty- bound...
...lived in a shoe and the young woman, in Hans Christian Andersen's The Red Shoes, who died for one. Cinderella's glass slippers and Dorothy's ruby pumps still tiptoe around the imagination. In the ancient Indian epic the Ramayana, the exiled king leaves behind a single memorable token: a pair of gold-encrusted shoes. Newlyweds once routinely tied a pair of old brogues behind their coach or car for good luck. In the Middle Ages the well-to-do wore poulaines, shoes with pointy, turned-up toes that were thought to ward off witches...