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DEDICATION

To my daughter Pamela Grossman, who was killed at the age of 6 not long before I started working on this dissertation. I would much rather have spent the time with her. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I thank Yuri Gurevich for his kind and expert guidance. He was always there to teach and to support me. His example of personal and professional integrity will stay with me always as something to strive for. I also want to thank Alexis Manaster Ramer, Bill Grosky, and Greg Bachelis for the multitude of help they gave me while I was a student at Wayne, as well as for serving on my committee. My gratitude also goes to Lucja Iwanska for recently agreeing to serve on my committee, and for the help she has given since that time. Finally, I want to thank my husband, Jerry Grossman, for living through all o