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Personally, I'm for both feminism and nonviolence. I admire the male body and prefer to find the penis attached to it rather than having to root around in vacant lots with Ziploc bag in hand. But I'm not willing to wait another decade or two for gender peace to prevail. And if a fellow insists on using his penis as a weapon, I say that, one way or another, he ought to be swiftly disarmed...
...nursery." New York City's Harlem Hospital Center reports that its daily count has plunged from 20 to three. At Grady Memorial in Atlanta, the annual total of boarder children fell from 52 in 1990 to 22 last year. The improvements reflect a courageous willingness to identify -- and tackle -- root causes. All three hospitals practice early intervention, targeting problem mothers during pregnancy. Each addresses not only motherhood but also the addictions and other tribulations that can make motherhood seem unendurable...
...with having lost Russia. Yet it should be obvious that democracy in Russia will be won or lost almost exclusively by the Russians themselves." And if reform fails in Russia, says James Baker, an enlarged NATO would at least "protect democracy" where it is showing signs of taking "firm root -- in Warsaw, Prague and Budapest...
Start that toast with 502.5 fluid ounces of ginseng tonic, or make your own with $1,000 worth of the root itself: depending on the type you buy, one grand gets you 10 pounds of American white ginseng root, or 8.5 pounds of American red ginseng root, or five pounds of Chinese ginseng kivin root at Harnett's, Church and Brattle Streets...
Alas, the competent production only underscores the root of Gilroy's problem: he is writing a no-longer-fashionable form, family melodrama, and is unable -- as indeed, he was unable even in Roses, for all its acute observation -- to invest middle-class conflict with enough poetry or subtext to have it mean more than the surface struggle. This kind of storytelling is now done by TV movies of the week...