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Meanwhile, for better or for worse, women have tended to stay firmly embedded in the nexus of intergenerational dependencies--doing more than their share of the child rearing, for example, and of the caring for elderly and maundering parents. In the work force, women are disproportionately represented in the human services: as nurses and teachers, day-care and nursing-home workers. They may want lower taxes as much as anyone else, but not in exchange for a pink slip...
Perhaps the Cornerstone Theater Company's production of "California Seagull," a recent adaptation of Chekhov's classic relocated to the Golden State, deliberately reproduces all the traits of Konstantin's play. Maybe it's a multidimensional meta-commentary on the original which adds new facets to the nexus between fact and fiction. Or maybe it's just an enthusiastic and imaginative enterprise that gets a little carried away with its "alternadrama" image. Whichever way you look at it, "California Seagull" suffers from an overdose of avant-garde. But there's something in it. And Nina is excellent...
...change dramatically. But one thing about Pat is that he holds his opinions with total conviction and intensity, even if they're the opposite of the views he held with similar intensity and conviction the day before." Kinsley recently exiled himself to Seattle, "far away from the D.C.-N.Y. nexus," where he will create an online magazine of politics and culture for Microsoft. We're happy to say he has not totally renounced his former habits: he'll still be writing essays for TIME...
Gates is as fearful as he is feared, and these days he worries most about the Internet, Usenet and the World Wide Web, which threaten his software monopoly by shifting the nexus of control from stand-alone computers to the network that connects them. The Internet, by design, has no central operating system that Microsoft or anybody else can patent and license. And its libertarian culture is devoted to open--that is to say, nonproprietary--standards, none of which were set by Microsoft...
Beyond racism, are black people and other political minority groups still oppressed? If you take the indirect and circumstantial route, yes. To look at the preponderance of white males in politics and business--the nexus of power in our society--one can reason, perhaps logically, that the lack of qualified minorities is due to a covert effort, fostered by racism, of keeping minorities out of positions of influence...