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Faced with the most serious outbreak of labor unrest since placing Poland under martial law more than six years ago, the regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski seemed oddly uncertain about how to respond, whether to make strategic concessions or to lower the boom. For a while, the government tried a little of both. As the strikes spread to other major industrial centers and the country's universities last week, authorities continued to agree to wage increases in a few cases, acceded to mediation attempts by representatives of the Roman Catholic Church in others -- but always with the explicit warning that...
Ellen Goodman recently reported a "debate" over the legitimacy of astrology on PBS's MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and I have heard Dan Rather proclaim that "astrology has been given a new legitmacy," as if it were a neutral fact. I think this new boom in superstition is bad news of the first order. Television coverage of late has been limited to interviews with psuedoscientists and their devotees, who naturally are gleeful about the recent turn of events. The press seems afraid to point out how stupid a belief in astrology is, how discredited a "science...
...when a Roper poll asked the baby-boom generation for its heroes, the rich and famous and superficial headed the list: Clint Eastwood and Eddie Murphy, celebrities standing in for real heroes. But the current wave of nostalgia for Bobby Kennedy may be a signal that the generation that retreated to self-absorption in the '70s and '80s may be ready to feel passion again. That Kennedy is a hero to them could be more than nostalgia; it may suggest a yearning, once again, to re-engage...
Welcome to the April rush. Across the country last week, colleges were scrambling to land academic superstars. The reason for their push to recruit: with the baby boom busted, enrollments have been on a slow but steady slide since 1980. This has prompted even the fussiest schools to adopt glitzy new marketing gimmicks for wooing top prospects. "Everybody's hustling," says Robert Thornton, director of admissions at New College in Florida. Last week Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., held an open house featuring a student play and poetry readings to emphasize the school's strength in the arts. Colgate...
Babies seem to be everywhere these days. Current movie fare offers Three Men and a Baby, Baby Boom and She's Having a Baby. Even television commercials are using giggling, gurgling newborns to shill for grownup products such as carpets, insurance and automobile tires. Yet despite the highly visible new crop of infants, not all Americans are sure they want to help fuel the baby mania. Observes UCLA Psychologist Jacqueline Goodchilds: "Many people are questioning the assumption that fulfillment for a woman is having children...