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...nurse and a farmer--she took over operating a 320-acre farm after her first husband died in an accident--Leising lobbied for term limits from her seat in the Indiana Senate. She also introduced informed-consent legislation requiring Indiana women to wait 18 hours and receive counseling before an abortion. The Susan B. Anthony pro-life women's pac has endorsed Leising in her second effort to unseat 32-year incumbent Hamilton...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "There are three reasons I got involved with the informed-consent [abortion] bill. I'm a nurse. I'm a mother. And I'm a Catholic...
...eyes, the tragedy is not merely the unfair contract but the manipulation and the lack of respect that the union demonstrated. It is unacceptable. Moreover, I am disappointed with Harvard University itself, for without Harvard's consent or prodding, none of this would be going on. Harvard is supposed to be a lighthouse of moral excellence, an example for others--not a place where the working class is exploited and degraded by those in power. --Mawi H. Asgedom...
...called Hilary Foretich, to visit her father Eric Foretich, who Elizabeth claims molested Ellen. He denies the claim. For the past seven years mother and daughter have been living in New Zealand. The tailor-made legislation will mean that Foretich won't be allowed to see Ellen without her consent. His lawyer says the new law is unconstitutional and he will challenge it in federal court...
...charge he denies. In the 1980s, when Kemp was a Buffalo Congressman, Cosentino allegedly got at least $5 million in loans for a hotel construction project from a pension fund of the Buffalo local of the Laborers' International Union of North America, a union that recently signed a consent decree acknowledging mob influence. Fino, business manager of the local, has told investigators that the reputed head of the Buffalo Mob ordered the loans. Fino has said Cosentino and a former Kemp aide both told him that Kemp helped Cosentino get millions in federal money for the project...