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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This set of arguments presents the social grounding of the pro-choice movement. And understandably so. Despite the talk about cases in which women are physically endangered by their pregnancy or are impregnated due to rape (these cases account for less than 1 percent of all abortions), it is single, young, poor or career women who are most likely to see abortion as the best solution, however traumatic, to a big dilemma--pregnancy...

Author: By Bill Tsingos, | Title: A Liberal Objection to Abortion | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Although the exact happenings of the night of February 19 are unclear to most of us, I will assume for the purposes of this letter that Mr. Buckley's account covers the extent of them. By this account, the events of that night seem to fall far short of the unofficially maintained standards of what constitutes sexual harassment at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harassment? | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...desire is definitely not to give a bye to a Hockey East team. The team has to earn the bye," said Laing Kennedy, committee member and director of athletics at Cornell. "We took into account that Maine played a greater number of teams in the top 15. Harvard and [third-seeded] St. Lawrence played a lesser number of top 15 teams...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Icemen Given Second Seed in the East | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

Superficially, middle-class blacks already seem to be living that dream. Leon and Cora Brooks have spent more than a decade at IBM, where he is a dealer account manager and she is a senior personnel specialist. They have a comfortable home in the affluent and mostly black Los Angeles neighborhood of Baldwin Hills; they have a Mercedes in the garage and a daughter at California State University at Northridge. Leon Brooks jokes, "We're a typical white family that happens to be black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Black Middle Class: Between Two Worlds | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

After the game, Adams and Boggs congratulate themselves on the success of their plan, close out their joint account at BayBanks and are seen boarding a PanAm Flight to LaPaz. They are never heard from again...

Author: By Joe R. Palmore, | Title: The Perfect Sox Surprise Scenario | 3/7/1989 | See Source »

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