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Casey, who is leading the efforts against the bill, said that the University is using two strategies to try to defeat the legislation...
Most mothers know something of the mental slipperiness that can come with a new baby. Up to three-quarters of them experience some mild form of postpartum "blues"--a sense of anxiety and defeat that usually fades in a few days. About 10% to 15% experience actual depression. But in 1 of every 1,000 births, the mother develops what is called postpartum psychosis, in which she breaks from reality, in rare cases becoming violent. Andrea told police she first thought of killing her children months before, convinced that she was a bad mother who had permanently damaged them, according...
...kill as many of those bastards as possible." In Japanese subtitles, that line is vague: "I myself would choose a tasty target." In the closing voice-over of the original version, Kate Beckinsale, playing a nurse, declares, "Before Doolittle's raid, Americans knew nothing but defeat; after it, nothing but victory." That statement was deemed too cocky for the war's losers; in the Japanese version, it was rerecorded as "after it, there was hope of victory." Soldiers in various scenes call their enemies "Jap suckers" and "dirty Japs." In the Japanese version, they're just "Japs...
...strategy didn't work. Daschle kept Senate Democrats in line and peeled off enough moderate Republicans to defeat hostile Republican amendments by comfortable margins. The only compromises Democrats were willing to make were on their provision making employers liable in some civil suits. On other issues, such as adding tax breaks to the bill or curbing the liability HMOs faced, the Democrats refused to budge and easily defeated Republican attempts to change the bill. The Kennedy-McCain-Edwards bill guarantees patients that their insurer will pay for emergency care, visits to specialists such as pediatricians, minimum hospital stays after mastectomies...
...Team Racing Nationals, the Crimson delivered a school record second-place performance on its home waters. Had it not been for a controversial defeat to eventual champion Georgetown on the final day of racing, Harvard would have secured the national title. In the Fowle Cup standings, the Crimson reclaimed the lead with 52 points, followed by Old Dominion and Dartmouth with 47 and 45 points, respectively...