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...time, pro-choice leaders and legislators across Illinois joined Obama in making this argument. "It would have completely eviscerated Roe v. Wade," says Pam Sutherland, who was president of the state's Planned Parenthood chapter at the time. "[The] bills were so unclear that it would have been litigated forever." Obama was not alone in heeding these concerns. More than 20 other senators joined Obama in opposing one of the early versions of the Born Alive bill...
...Lowdown: Watts is intent on exploring the deeper meaning of Hefner's popularity and securing the publisher's place in America's cultural history. But he takes this admirable impulse too far. Nearly every chapter sub-section ends with a sweeping pronouncement: "Hefner and Playboy's social and political orientation in the early 1960s reflected a Kennedyesque sensibility," he writes in a typical summation. The effect can be grating-a magazine which calls the naked librarian gracing its pages "as dewy as a decimal system" cannot then be said to embody the Cold War ideological gulf demonstrated by Nixon...
...Rays and the Texas Rangers were the only franchises in baseball who never qualified for an LCS. Call Texas the Lone Rangers - the Rays have now purged themselves from that list. If we're lucky, maybe Tampa Bay - or Boston, or Philly, or L.A. - will write the next chapter of LCS lore. And deliver another fall classic, before the Fall Classic sees its first pitch...
...understand what Business Stripped Bare is really about; it probably could use a chapter about reading between the lines. So ask yourself, Do I really need another lecture along these lines, especially from some bloke who's also dying to sell me an airline ticket or cell-phone service...
Ignatius reveals this scheme in his book's opening chapter. Monahan and Scott take nearly an hour to start focusing on it, so fascinated are they by the daily risks and gambles an American in Arabia must take. It's low-tech guts on the ground, high-tech snooping in the sky. As Ferris lays his life on the line for another scam out in the desert, Hoffman gets a remote overhead view through the Predator surveillance system. He might be God watching his creatures, or a lab technician staring down at the rats in his maze...