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...detour, and we have to get around it." Hard-liners, however, think delaying an attack against Saddam because of the Middle East conflict simply means giving him breathing space to perfect his weapons of mass destruction. "Time is not on our side, and Saddam is running out the clock," says Frank Gaffney, president of the Center for Security Policy, a conservative think tank...
...rise of Islam; they witness governmental powers ineluctably shifting from Paris to the European Union. They fear that an American-style, unfettered free-market economy has nibbled away at social cohesion. And so they have thrown their support to Le Pen, a man who promises to turn back the clock, to rebuild a world where to live in France means that you speak, eat and buy French...
...indeed the ticking biological clock for women is a real problem, then all members of society--men and women, the business world and stay-at-home parents--should be involved in discussing how best to balance work and home life. All parents should be supported in their decisions, regardless of gender. It's high time we stopped framing work-and-family discussions as women's issues. LORI EICKMANN Dublin, Calif...
Forget about the ticking biological clock and the demands of a career. Many women who commented on "Making Time for a Baby" [SOCIETY, April 15] insisted that the biggest obstacle to having a child was the lack of a suitable partner. "My girlfriends and I all turn 30 this year, and despite normal, healthy dating lives, none of us are anywhere near to finding Mr. Right," wrote Heidi Reinholdt of New York City. "If we end up childless, it will not be because of our jobs but because we chose not to settle for Mr. Second Best." Chicagoan Rochelle Kopp...
...Crimson gained possession again off the ensuing faceoff and ran the clock down to a minute with patient passing behind the Big Green net. Dartmouth made two runs on the attack in the final seconds, but sophomore goalkeeper Jake McKenna made the easy save on the first, and Packard came in from behind to check an open Big Green attacker on the second...