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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the arrival of a strong freshman class should ease the pain of Eynon's loss. In addition, several top players are returning. The top returning players are Blair Clark (who usually played number two last year), Ivy Pochoda and Dockery...

Author: By Eric R. French, | Title: Squash Expects Best | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

...Blair, Nebraska, there was a case where the city officials captured a 15-year-old girl and imprisoned her in a foster home to force her to carry the baby to term," Strossen said...

Author: By Alexander T. Nguyen, | Title: Strosser Speaks on Women's Rights | 10/20/1995 | See Source »

...Blair last week people were talking more about the invasion of the national media than about the abortion. Though pro-life sentiment runs strong here, it is by no means universal, and Blair city attorney Wyman Nelson insists that ideology played no role in the Mary Smith incident. "This wasn't about the issue of abortion, it was about the threat to the health of a juvenile," he says. In a small town such as Blair, the word of a "very well-respected physician" like Bagby is not questioned when he claims that such a threat exists. (Most gynecologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALLING THE COPS ON A PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

...looking out for?" asks the Tulls' local lawyer, Andrew Ferguson. "Eventually someone is going to have to explain to this young girl why her maternal grandparents sued her father for trying to prevent her from being aborted." And, for that matter, why her conception became a cause celebre in Blair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALLING THE COPS ON A PREGNANT GIRLFRIEND | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

There were a lot of people in the town of Blair, Nebraska, who thought they knew what was best for "Mary Smith,'' 15 years old and pregnant. But it's unlikely that most of them, including the police, were acting lawfully. In May 1994, Congress passed the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, which makes it a federal crime to use force or threaten to use force against a woman seeking an abortion. The law was intended to end the vigilante violence that had exploded at abortion clinics around the country. The lawmakers probably didn't even envision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIGILANTE BOYFRIEND | 10/9/1995 | See Source »

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