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...Afghanistan has to start from such a deficit when it comes to development. You know, we're rightfully focused on narco-trafficking. But you've got a 30% literacy rate. We actually had dinner with a very fine Minister of Education who is genuinely committed to education for all children, but particularly for girls. Listening to him describe not only the barriers presented by the lack of women teachers - and you've got to have women teachers to teach girls in a traditional Islamic society - but also, the fact that they have to produce enough schools so that girls...
...clarinet. He wouldn't stop playing, and he wouldn't stop glaring.'' Goodman's relentless drive had its roots in his impoverished childhood, for music was a passport out of the dark hallways and unheated basement flats in which his immigrant parents were trying to raise eleven children. At age nine, Benny got a clarinet. First at the neighborhood Kehelah Jacob synagogue, then at Jane Addams' Hull House and in private lessons with a member of the Chicago Symphony, he applied himself so diligently that at 16, he was a full-fledged member of Ben Pollack's band...
...talking, you know, real small talk, and he'd ask a question,'' James once recalled. ''While you were answering, he'd have turned away and was thinking about music.'' Goodman reserved most of his free time for his wife Alice (Hammond's sister) and their two children at their Manhattan apartment or Connecticut retreat. This year it appeared that he was enjoying a resurgence. In March, PBS broadcast a special for which he fronted a band and sailed through such signature tunes as Let's Dance, Stealin' Apples and King Porter Stomp. The years had not diminished him much. There...
...shrunk to 6 to 3 in a 1983 case, and last week to 5 to 4. At the convention of the National Right to Life Committee in Denver, a spokeswoman cheered, ''Seven- two! Six-three! Five-four! We are one vote away from restoring full protection for unborn children!'' National Right to Life President J.C. Willke bubbled, ''We're overjoyed with this decision. All we need is one more (Justice) and we're going to reverse this abomination.'' Yet many pro-choicers were also happy with the decisions--particularly the Pennsylvania case, Thornburgh vs. American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
...subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Writing for four of the Justices,* Justice John Paul Stevens noted that federal law ''does not authorize the Secretary (of HHS) to give unsolicited advice either to parents, to hospitals or to state officials who are faced with difficult treatment decisions concerning handicapped children.'' To the court's knowledge, no hospital had refused treatment sought by parents or mandated by the order of a state court, Stevens pointed out. Moreover, hospitals need parental consent to treat a minor, handicapped or not --and since parents are not compelled by law to consent to treatment, federal...