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...first, the issue of selective prosecution appeared paramount. Earlier this year, when Idaho Congressman George Hansen updated his book about the IRS' abuse of power. To Harass Our People, he included a chapter summing up the Moon case. Hansen wrote that "From the beginning, it was evident that the government was relying for its case on the most damning facts possible-the unpopularity of the Moon church and the fact that Reverend Moon is an Oriental...
Coles is at work on a book about the moral life of children, and a chapter in this book is entitled "Children and the Nuclear Bomb," in which he discusses the results of several years of intense interviews with children about their thoughts on nukes. It is from this manuscript that he developed his widely noted Los Alamos speech. Coles says he interviewed some 100 children, of all ages and social backgrounds, about 25-30 times each; he says he talked to another 200 about five times each, as well as about 35 teachers. This "direct observation," he suggests...
...only zealots in sight are willfully credulous European tourists. "You are a people truly young," burbles one foreign girl to the powerless and paralyzed Julio. "Everyone finds happiness in your country." Padilla knows better, and after a chapter or two of this biting phantasmagoria, so do all but the most naive readers...
Gilligan's work marks the first time anyone has studied female moral development. "Before Gilligan's work there wasn't enough material to write a chapter on girls and moral develpment," says Edith Phelps, the director of a new center for the study of gender, education and human development at the Ed School...
Mulroney's triumph brought to a close an eventful chapter in Canadian political life, the era of Pierre Trudeau. He came to symbolize Canada not only for Canadians but for the rest of the world, often to the delight of his countrymen. At a time when the French-speaking province of Quebec noisily threatened to secede, Trudeau blunted the menace with bilingual reforms. Toward the end of his tenure, however, Trudeau was increasingly perceived by Canadians as having overstayed his welcome. Many felt that the Prime Minister had grown bored and petulant, and that the Liberal Party had become...