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Hewlett replies that she is simply trying to help women make wise choices based on good information. She is not proposing a return to the '50s, she says, or suggesting that women should head off to college to get their MRS. and then try to have children soon after graduation. "Late 20s is probably more realistic, because men are not ready to commit earlier than that. And the 20s still needs to be a decade of great personal growth." She recommends that women get their degrees, work hard at their first jobs--but then be prepared to plateau...
...Europeans were loath to put out. We holler when the U.S. rightly fights international terrorism, which is also close to our doorstep. Pacifism and left-wing governments have blocked wholehearted support of American goals. It will take another Sept. 11, on this side of the ocean, for Europe to wise up. ARIE DE KORT Bodegraven, the Netherlands...
...complex and tormented visionary, a sage victimized by his own abilities or just another jerk in ceremonial robes? Ultimately, Downing leaves the decision to the reader. There are really no completely clean, morally unambiguous figures in Downing's story?and that includes even Shunryu Suzuki himself, who, wise and lovable as he might have been, certainly suffered from his own distinctive set of follies and foibles. Evangelizing America, it turns out, was only part of the master's plan. He also nurtured the somewhat grandiose dream of using his new American followers to help him revitalize Zen in Japan itself...
...struggling a little bit position-wise, finding out where I needed to play,” Cooley said. “So I worked with coach a lot on Friday before the games, and I went in with the attitude that I needed to play confident. I just started playing up a little bit more to take away the bunt. I worked on it and it came through...
...amid the peace societies and socialist social clubs Kit meets? It is easy to highlight essential similarities when there are only surface differences. These are all familiar characters, partly because their types are so worked-over in Hollywood mythologies: the concerned parents, the suicidal adolescent, her mentor the mysterious, wise...