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After her comments on Genesis, Bruzelius, clad in a dressy black suit with vibrant pink and red flowers on the jacket, steered the discussion into the readings for the week: Dr. Lamaze's writings on his well-known breathing techniques, which he believed could make childbirth painless...
...Pran, an aide to New York Times correspondent Sidney Schanberg during the Vietnam War. The actor actually had lived through strikingly similar horrors, as both were imprisoned by the Khmer Rouge regime that killed millions of Cambodians. In a recent memoir, he wrote of watching his wife die in childbirth because had he revealed his training as a doctor, he would have been executed. "Maybe in my last life before this one, I did something wrong to hurt people," Ngor, a Buddhist, once said. "But this life, I paid back...
...returns to this wound in chapter after beautifully written chapter, across the decades. Men in his plots are isolated from women; wives die in childbirth or simply pack up and move out; lovers pine or sulk offstage. Blacks and whites are of course isolated from one another, even when bound by love and blood kinship. Sons and fathers cherish obscure bitternes, then meet after years of silence and fail to reconcile. Acts of love are intense but always precarious and often deadly...
This, then, is where the goals of the antiabortion movement collide headon with the Gingrich agenda. The volunteers at roughly 3,000 crisis pregnancy centers nationwide (465 of them sponsored by Care Net) are promoting childbirth among the very women the Contract with America hopes to discourage from motherhood: unwed teens and welfare mothers having additional children. Could the centers make up the difference if, as Newt proposes, welfare benefits to such women were cut back? ``Absolutely not,'' says Linda Cochrane, executive director of the Poughkeepsie center. ``What clients get from the government far exceeds what we provide...
...from Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Ngaio Marsh's Roderick Alleyn. Like his predecessors, he is an educated investigator and a deeply sensitive individual. Unlike earlier detectives, he is a professional policeman, a published poet, and he harbors a secret tragedy--early in his career, his wife died in childbirth. He avoids romance and even short-term affairs...