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...common desire to dominate is presented intriguingly in “Shirts vs. Skins.” The three panels belonging to this piece show two rival basketball teams, one shirtless and facing the viewer, the other wearing shirts and facing the rival team. The intent expressions on the faces of the adolescent boys show their desire to control the situation and win against the opposing team. The teams are positioned in relationship to the viewer in such a way that the viewer feels as if she were part of the team with shirts on. This strange warping of reality...
...Lady Thatcher vs. Polly Panic...
...article. These include equal pay for equal work (even today, a woman earns just 75 cents for every dollar earned by her male counterpart), a workplace free of sexual harassment, accessible birth control under insurance plans and full protection of women’s rights under Roe vs. Wade. In addition, NOW has set up relief funds for Afghan women and continue international programs to aid oppressed women so that women worldwide can share in the success American feminists have won in the last century...
...safety of American citizens and the security of our nation require a restriction of our precious individual freedoms until the threat of more terrorist attacks is eliminated [PRIVACY VS. SAFETY, Sept. 24]. If civil libertarians don't like the idea of the Federal Government monitoring more e-mails or requiring a national identification card, I propose they move to Afghanistan. CARLOS J. DOMINGUEZ Miami Beach...
...while my mind traversed these paths of catastrophic mechanical failure, the idea of a hijacking never entered my mind, not even once. My thoughts were well ensconced in the man vs. nature theme—with nature exacting a devilish price for the sheer hubris of man—not deranged and self-righteous men taking the lives of countless innocents. Hijackings were things that happened to airliners of other more fractious nations, or in the decade just prior to my existence—the bleary and shadowy 1970s...