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Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina hasn't been much of a trendsetter on legal or social issues, but it may have started down the path to banning abortion all by itself. In the most aggressive move by any state to grant rights to fetuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a mother can be prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely...
...difficult as it is, I impose a ban on myself during the school year at Harvard: no pleasure reading. Many of my friends, even those in similarly reading-intensive concentrations like history and literature, do read for fun during the school year, but I know that if I crunch one bite of the forbidden fruit, I will be doomed forever--or at least until the end of exams. With more than 1,000 pages of reading per week, I simply don't have the three or four hours it takes to read a trashy novel, or the 10 or more...
Columbia, S.C.: South Carolina hasn't been much of a trendsetter on legal or social issues, but it may have started down the path to banning abortion all by itself. In the most aggressive move by any state to grant rights to fetuses, the state's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a mother can be prosecuted for child abuse if she takes drugs during pregnancy. South Carolina's Attorney General Charlie Condon called the ruling a "landmark decision for protecting children" and said he would charge prosecutors and social workers with enforcing the new law. While the ruling is unlikely...
...lead in June. The numbers are below Clinton's 22-point lead in May, but still represent Clinton's second largest lead since the poll began last July. Dole appears to have been hurt by comments that tobacco may not be addictive and his failure to support a federal ban on assault weapons. By a 39-15 margin, voters said a candidate's support of the ban would make them more likely to support that candidate. By a 38-20 margin, voters said Clinton's stance on tobacco comes closer to their own than Dole's. Neither candidate appears...
Proctors and students have noticed that the smoking ban has been widely flouted, despite the rules and state laws...