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...social tract, however, can also be a movie. Ladybird, Ladybird is a good one-more painful to watch than any slasher film, because its emotional violence literally hits home. And however close Jorge comes to being fitted for the halo worn in Boys Town by Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan, the new film rarely sentimentalizes its scorching situations...
...Angeles got him down. "When we were in L.A., my wife's car was broken into, we had things stolen. So I came back here, and then in November 1993, I was staring at a 40-ft. wall of flames. Now this." The fire spared his four-bedroom tract home, but the rains got it in spite of the 4- ft.-high barricade of mud he constructed as the waters rose. He ticked off his losses, saying finally his situation was "like a sinking ship." He picked up a pole with a squeegee affixed to one end and began clearing...
Estrogen is a hormone that regulates the development of the female reproductive tract...
Last week, Wellesley Professor Tony Martin spoke at Harvard at the invitation of the Black Students Association (BSA). Martin, the author of an anti-Semitic tract entitled The Jewish Onslaught, used his Harvard forum to denounce the Jewish tradition and the Jewish people for holding a "monopoly" on centuries-worth of the notion of divinely ordained African inferiority. Repeating his belief that the "so-called Sages" of the Babylonian Talmud were the earliest racists of recorded history, Martin urged Harvard students to consider The Bell Curve, a controversial new book linking race and intelligence, as only the latest manifestation...
...Democrat, I find it hard to fathom the recent elections that left both Houses of Congress in Republican hands and made a man named "Newt" Speaker of the House. That man plans to have a political tract he wrote, entitled "Contract With America," read at the start of every business day in Congress for the first 100 days of the next session...