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Most of us took pains to parent-proof our dorm: no boys under the covers, no beer cans or conspicuous Beirut tables, no condoms, no birth control pills. But what to us appeared innocuous shocked our parents. Even after I explained to my mother that I got the lubricant lying around my room at an assembly on safe contraceptive use, she was confused and uneasy...
...procedure has been greatly distorted as proponents have politicized the practice, dubbing it “partial-birth abortion” and barraging Congressional discourse with anecdotal narratives entailing grisly depictions of the procedure. They fail, of course, to iterate that this procedure is used in less than one percent of abortion cases, is the safest method of second-trimester abortion and is often essential in protecting the life of the woman—clearly one of the more salient details in its defense...
While we have disagreed with their consistent support of abortion rights in the past, it is completely beyond our understanding why, unlike 70 percent of Americans, The Staff feels compelled to support partial birth abortion, a procedure that oversteps all moral and ethical limits...
...five members of The Strokes appear to have studiously avoided wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art directed to achieve the look of not having been art directed. But when you hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with every passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just...
Have we Americans forgotten our own history? We did not become a perfected democracy overnight. Although we declared our independence in 1776 and most think of that as the birth date of our nation, George Washington was not elected President until the U.S. Constitution went into effect in 1789. That was 13 years later. Many in our country and around the world seem unwilling to wait 13 months in Iraq's case, let alone 13 years for a constitution and a President. Let's give the process a little more time before judging the effectiveness of the Bush Administration. GREGORY...