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...French’ to ‘Freedom’ in both its fries and its toast. Despite the amusing nature of the replacement (mocking the French always elicits a giggle), this change symbolized a more worrisome trend. More recently, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey proposed a ban on Pentagon participation in this year’s Paris Air Show, Florida Representative Ginny Brown-Waite proposed to have the bodies of those American soldiers who had been buried in France during World War II exhumed and returned to the United States and House leader Dennis Hastert has talked about...
Earlier this month, the Senate approved the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003. In the coming weeks, the House of Representatives will vote on the most severe legislative assault to the abortion rights granted by Roe v. Wade thirty years ago. If signed into law, the bill will be the first time Congress has ever specifically banned a medical procedure. The legislation would prohibit doctors from performing what is technically known as a “dilation and extraction’’ procedure. Physicians who knowingly defy the ban could be subject to jail terms as long...
...legislation leaving Congress is the product of political banter, not sound medical judgement. This ban is particularly troublesome because it criminalizes the reliable method when a woman’s health is of greatest concern. Women seeking abortions deserve access to the safest medical procedure available—the appropriate choice of treatment should be a decision that rests with a woman and her doctor, not with Congress...
...Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis ’68, serious questions remain concerning plans now being formulated by Summers and Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby to revamp the College experience and refocus it around academics. Lewis may well have irked undergraduates with his keg ban at Harvard-Yale, but he had an intelligent, holistic vision of undergraduate life. And even if Lewis’ personality clash with Summers made his departure inevitable, as University Hall insiders have confirmed, his balanced perspective should not be discarded when he leaves office in June. For catering to a broad...
Other items still on the list—including a ban on construction north of Wendell Street and a limit on additional parking spaces—would be tougher to win from the University, according to Bloomstein...