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...father, she has to tell him and the reader exactly whom she means: "Your father Mr. Hindley, Mrs. Linton's brother." Later, things reach a prettier pass. Agnes is appalled to think that "not only was the Colonel Margaret's husband and the father of her unborn child, and the enemy of her father but he was also the lover of her mother and the father of Anthony and all this unbeknownst to the children. No wonder the knowledge of it made Mr. Earnshaw ill." When such awkwardnesses of her own creation threaten to overwhelm the story...
When a new male ascends to power, pregnant females use deceit in an attempt to save their unborn young from his later attack: they demonstrate estrus behavior to the new leader, presumably to trick him into thinking the future offspring are his. But once the new male shows that he is determined to kill the infants, the mothers abandon their young. Though they could gang up on the male or refuse to copulate with him after infanticide, Hrdy notes, it is always in their individual self-interest to break ranks and accept him. Reason: their own male offspring will eventually...
...women at Houston wanted the right to tear their unborn children out of their wombs. How ironic of them at the same time to call for federally funded programs for victims of child abuse. What selfish, twisted logic...
...again-as an amendment to the 1978 budgets for the departments of Labor and Health, Education and Welfare-Massachusetts Republican Edward Brooke rallied the Senate in opposition. Said he: "This is a question of whether poor women should be denied their rights." To which Hyde replied: "It is the unborn children of the middle class and the rich who are discriminated against by this legislation because we have no way to limit their abortions...
...Carter did not begin with the explosion at Big Oil -and it would now persist even if the President had called the oilmen a group of public-spirited gentlemen. As Carter's energy program has been gutted in the Senate, as his much-touted tax-reform program remains unborn, as high inflation and high unemployment persist, many corporation bosses have come to see he President as someone who particularly unnerves them: an incompetent, or-at least vacillating, Chief Executive. In their view, Carter has tried to tackle too many major problems at once-energy, taxes, welfare reform-without thinking...