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...mainstay of Sandel's presentation is Professor John Rawls's Theory of Justice. Two of the key concepts in this work are an original position and a veil of ignorance. Having taken a Sandel course before in which these concepts were discussed, I hope the following explanation proves adequate for the discussion at hand (apologies to those of you who have just sweated through the deeper nuances...
Families with children, the mainstay of most communities, are a distinct minority in West Hollywood, constituting only 5% of the populace. The local International House of Pancakes does far more business during Halloween and the Gay Pride Parade in June than on Mother's Day. "In West Hollywood we don't have children's specialty shops or McDonald's with a playground," says Ruth Abrams, 36, whose daughter...
...Another mainstay of the HAND program is the after-school programs. The Peabody Neighborhood, linked to Cabot House, alone runs classes five days a week in gymnastics, jazz, embroidery, Spanish, piano, cooking, science, Dungeons and Dragons, computer games, and more...
...dress or funky pair of shoes to buy, Juniace Sene Charles worries about "what this month's electricity and water bill are going to be." The petite teenager, who came to Miami with her mother, younger brother and sister from Haiti two years ago, is the family's financial mainstay. Every day when classes end at Edison High School, she rushes to her job at Wendy's on Biscayne Boulevard. Her take-home weekly salary of about $75 is augmented occasionally by her mother's earnings from babysitting. "I'm chief of the household," she says. Juniace is fiercely loyal...
...none seemed more battered last week than Apple, the company whose founders began by tinkering with a circuit board in a California garage and went on to live a new version of the American dream. Among the problems that now plague the manufacturer are the gradual aging of its mainstay Apple II home computer and the recent failure of its Macintosh model to make much headway in the office market...