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With that benefit of the doubt, couldn't Bush take the risk of searching for a policy that can accommodate conflicting moral claims, so that we can stop thinking each other evil? During the perennial debate over partial-birth abortion, something important changed, but the extremists running the show were so dug in that they let the moment pass. For the first time in decades, pro-choicers (and the much desired soccer moms) were confronted with the statistics showing that late-term abortions weren't quite so rare or performed solely in grave circumstances and that the "health of mother...
...returned again and again. Ingenious enough to be issued a voter-registration card and driver's license in St. Louis, Mo., according to the Dallas Morning News, he allegedly voted in the 1988 presidential election. Says Cox: "This guy has used 12 different aliases, three or four dates of birth. I've seen six pictures of him, and they all look different." There have been several false sightings, and police and an FBI task force have rousted illegal aliens out of freight trains in their search...
...changing their names. I didn't have a problem with the sound of my name, Alan, and I've never been crazy about my middle name, Eric. After running the choices by some of my co-workers on the ferry, I briefly considered ditching the names on my birth certificate entirely, and switching to Rambo or Fabio or something I thought might be a little more fitting. I gave up on those two pretty quickly, but still, the idea of coming to Cambridge with a different name was appealing...
...course I took last spring, the professor was lecturing on the development of personality in children. He mentioned that birth order is one of the strongest determining factors in who one turns out to be. First-borns and only children, he said, are by far the most disposed to following traditional paths to success. Then he asked how many of the 200 undergraduates in the lecture hall fit into that group. Ninety percent raised their hands...
...TIME assistant managing editor Howard Chua-Eoan, "is that while he gives the impression of being an illiterate Mexican immigrant, he is extraordinarily smart." His apparent cunning has only served to heighten the concerns of the law enforcement community. Police believe the suspect has used some 30 aliases, numerous birth dates, a variety of Social Security numbers, and repeated changes of appearance to elude them -- all of which have also enabled him to slip in and out of the U.S. with ease. "There are reports that he once left a car at the border" -- a decoy that made it look...