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Now Fallows translates this change of temperament into his writing, trying to blend but not resolve the personal and political, "on the one hand being sensitive about what's good in people...being willing to understand their human richness, while, on the other hand, you are still willing to say...
Both black and white Southerners, in fact, basically live in a matriarchal society. The wife usually rules the home with an iron hand. Because of the links between church, family and community in the South, this often translates into great social power for matriarchs like "Miss Lillian," Jimmy Carter'...
HER GRANDMOTHER dies one morning, however, the film saying it happens while Veronique is checking her face for zits. And so, instead of spending her usual summer at that woman's home, she trots off with her godparents on a car trip. Through the not ever steamy window of her...
The stakes in the battle are titanic. For Detroit, each percentage-point gain in an auto company's share of the market translates into some half-billion dollars in added revenues. For the national economy, whether or not the automakers achieve the record 1977 sales that GM officials are...
Whatever the motives, whatever the pangs, circumstances alone seem likely to keep mixed doubles growing. Crowded and expensive courts force people to play doubles, and some clubs have dictated doubles only for weekends, which frequently translates into mixed-doubles. One of the largest groups in the new wave of tennis...