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...sure whether it's an alternative voice for political discussion on campus. It's more like an alternative humor magazine with a political twist," said Jesse M. Furman...
...million Jewish children living in Israel and the 500,000 Palestinian children under Israeli occupation, the gulf war has added a new twist to the ongoing cycle of violence in the Holy Land. Youngsters of both communities face injury or death from Iraqi missiles, or even bombs dropped from planes, but the reactions have been vastly different. The Scud attacks, which so far have primarily hit the Tel Aviv area but pose a threat to the whole country, have left Israeli children feeling fearful, frustrated and helpless. Palestinian youngsters, by contrast, appear relaxed and resigned. Sometimes they are even proud...
...Hole in the World by Richard Rhodes. Child abuse was not discovered by if- it-bleeds-it-leads TV-news editors. Suffering innocents can also be found in literature, extending from Medea to Oliver Twist. Set in the Midwest during the '30s and '40s, this memoir of how Rhodes and his brother survived mistreatment by a hateful stepmother should become a minor classic...
...equally possible that it will accentuate such a drift by removing one of the last and most eloquent advocates of perestroika from Gorbachev's inner circle. Among a parade of speakers to the Congress podium after Shevardnadze's speech, Vladimir Chernyak, a Ukrainian economist, gave a new twist to warnings of a coup: "At the head of the coup stands Gorbachev. It's possible he himself doesn't know it. By demanding for himself more and more powers, he is creating the legal basis for a dictatorship -- maybe not for himself personally...
...news conference, the President explained lamely that the new policy would "continue these minority scholarships as best we can." But civil rights advocates and educational professionals immediately cried foul. The latest policy twist, they charged, was administratively unworkable, legally shaky and likely to invite endless litigation. Moreover, by outlawing the use of general funds, the ruling placed the largest source of money for minority scholarships off limits. "On issues of race and sex discrimination, Bush is merely Ronald Reagan in sheep's clothing," fumed Ralph Neas, head of the Washington-based Leadership Conference on Civil Rights...