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...Secretary's doctors, who say his operation went "perfectly well," contend that with proper medication and enough rest, he will be fit for the job he has wanted for decades. A Wisconsin native who graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from Yale, triple-majored at Oxford (economics, politics, history) and earned his doctorate in economics at M.I.T., he first worked in the Pentagon as an aide to then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Aspin entered Congress in 1971 with a maverick, antiwar attitude. Serving on the House Armed Services Committee, he earned a reputation as "Dr. No," but during the 1980s...
...discussion. Castigating controversial speakers is antithetical to the Harvard experience; furthermore, holding forums in which the issues are framed in what some would call an inappropriate manner galvanizes the issue at hand. Opponents of the Muhammed/Mansfield genre of "race-speech" cannot deny that with controversy comes discussion. I contend that with discussion comes an enhanced understanding of the issues...
Meanwhile, clinics are bracing themselves for another season of assaults. Melbourne is now the site of a 12-week training camp, organized by Operation Rescue, where about 25 men are learning tactics for blockades. Pro-choice activists who are monitoring the group contend that the men are also being instructed in how to stalk and harass. The convergence of pro-life forces has placed great strain on the area's sole abortion clinic, where about 30 protesters have been picketing for the past month. Merritt, the clinic counselor whose son was harassed, says when the murder of the doctor...
While Leverett residents admit that their house may not have been their initial choice, they contend that they grow to love their unsightly dwelling...
...statements by attorneys and the order of three dozen prosecution witnesses expected to testify over the next six to eight weeks suggest that the jurors will still be deciding the case on virtually the same information and arguments made by both sides in the first trial. The prosecution will contend that the officers violated police policy by hitting King in the head with batons and kicking him to make him comply with their commands. And the defense will continue to maintain that the officers' actions were "a managed and controlled use of force that followed L.A.P.D. policies, procedures and training...