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...Britton, 69, was a man of modest means. When he replaced the murdered Dr. David Gunn as a circuit-riding doctor for several abortion clinics in northern Florida, he realized he needed a vest. But instead of buying, he wore one constructed of manufacturer's scraps. Sometimes he worried that it was too short. "If they get me in the liver, that's pretty tough to patch," he told a reporter last February. Apparently he assumed that his assailant, aiming from a prudent distance in hopes of a clean getaway, would go for the largest target, the torso...
...even President Clinton's closed-circuit address to our conference commanded the attention of the entire group. Clinton's one remark which drew substantial attention, according to the convention publication, was referring to all those in attendance as "non-white...
...provocative idea, particularly coming from a self-described feminist. But it would probably never have propelled Sommers onto the talk-show circuit if the New York Times had not assigned the book to be reviewed by an academic feminist of the very sort Sommers decries. The June 12 review, by University of Pennsylvania professor Nina Auerbach, airily blew Sommers off as another "muddled" example of conservative backlash: "In Ms. Sommers' world, there are no powerful men, only women shrieking irrationally in a vacuum," wrote Auerbach. "But her treatment of social issues is so thin that...
Women's groups were furious at a Michigan judge's decision to take away a woman's three-year-old daughter because she had placed the child in day care while attending college. Circuit Court Judge Raymond Cashen awarded custody of the toddler, Maranda, to her father, arguing that "strangers" would care for her at a day-care center while mother Jennifer Ireland, 19, attends the University of Michigan. The child will spend days in her new home with her paternal grandmother while dad works. TIME Midwest correspondent Wendy Cole says the judge's language reflects the rhetoric...
...Aware Woman was attacked with butyric acid and its locks were jammed with glue; its staff members were stalked and threatened and their neighbors and children accosted. Finally, last year, a month after the murder of Dr. David Gunn by an antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against clinic violence at Aware Woman with one of the most severe arrangements in the country. In addition to the 36-ft. taboo zone, he forbade protesters within a 300-ft. radius to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew...