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...issue of abortion, Bush has promised that he will work to reverse the Supreme Court's decision to overturn a partial-birth abortion law passed by the Nebraska legislature. The law, which Nebraska Attorney General Don Stenberg '74 sought to defend, attempted to ban the horrific procedure in which the baby's brain is extracted from its skull after the baby's limbs are torn from its body. Bush has promised that, if elected, he will appoint justices who would uphold a state's ability to pass such...
Social and cinema history back him up. The first great movie epic (The Birth of a Nation) and the first talkie sensation (The Jazz Singer) wallowed in racial derision, personified by white actors in blackface. Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Bugs Bunny defaced themselves in minstrel cork. Egregious stereotyping can still be heard, most mornings, on Don Imus' and Howard Stern's radio shows--aural blackface. Somebody had to shout, "Enough," and, whaddaya know, it was Spike...
Cruz has been beguiling international audiences since 1992, when she played the youngest of four loving sisters in the Oscar-winning Belle Epoque. She gave birth on a city bus in Pedro Almodovar's Live Flesh, played a pregnant nun in Almodovar's All About My Mother, made love to a disfigured roue in Open Your Eyes, resisted the advances of Joseph Goebbels in The Girl of Your Dreams and, in her first American role, provided a beacon of moral beauty for cowboy Billy Crudup in The Hi-Lo Country...
...happily married mother of a four-year-old boy, was stunned last year to learn she was again pregnant. She and her husband--who had relied on the rhythm method and condoms for birth control--had been renovating their home outside Seattle, using a number of caustic chemicals. "I thought about the chemicals I had been exposed to and I thought about our very busy lives," Amy says. "I know what I can handle, and our lives were not settled enough or prepared enough for another child." She decided, with her husband's support, to have an abortion...
...BABIES An infant's birth weight may be a function of how much social support the expectant mother receives during pregnancy. Researchers at UCLA and the University of California at Irvine interviewed nearly 250 pregnant women, gathering data about the baby's father, the baby's grandparents and the mother's close friendships. They found that women who received support from multiple sources tended to have bigger babies, perhaps because they were encouraged to stop smoking and start eating better...