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...look back to see how the status of women in the U.S. has changed, we find that women have both progressed towards equality as well as regressed in the military. Last year women were finally allowed to fly combat missions and serve aboard warships after the government lifted the ban against women in combat. But Shannon Faulkner, a woman who wished to join the all-male state-supported military school, the Citadel, was ultimately denied entrance by both the school and the government of South Carolina, which upheld the school's decision. The school and state formed a plan...
...Navy had always stood by Hultgreen's ability. She even convinced those who very nervous about allowing women to fly in combat. "We were a little apprehensive at first about women driving the plane, but she got hold of that thing and knew what she was doing," her training squadron commander, Capt. Tom Sobieck, told the New York Times. When given the same training and subjected to the same standards as men, women compete on an equal level. If women are subject to the same standards as men, as Shannon Faulkner was in her original Citadel application (when...
...settling marital disputes. On the daytime talk shows, audiences go into frenzies of outrage over batterers and any batterees who dawdle before calling the hotline. In California and Massachusetts, Governors who are feverishly cutting programs that aid women in poverty are proposing actual increases in funds to combat domestic violence. Thanks to Nicole Brown Simpson's sad fate, we tell ourselves, we're all painfully aware of the problem. So why, a rational observer might inquire, are we simultaneously hell-bent on policies that will lock millions of women into violent and abusive relationships...
...spatial-temporal relations break down under the electric wire and neighbors are no longer the guys next door, many new definitions will emerge to combat the conventional ones, spawning new aesthetics Heidegger could only guess at. On the bumpy path to a new aesthetic, "Between Cinema and A Hard Place" is a visually tantalizing, take-your date kind of exhibit worth experiencing...
...premiere othe 1992-93 winner of the New York Drama Critics'Circle Award for "Best Foreign Play," relates thestory of a trio of hostages awaiting their fate atthe hands of unseen captors. In their struggle tosurvive the incarceration, these untimely heroescourageously confront their fears and form aloving bond to combat their isolation andhelplessness