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...Sounds Like...Tae Kwon Do Distressed by the recent increase in crime? Take these self defense lessons to become a competent practitioner, if not master, of Moo Doe. Thursday, Oct. 2 at 7:00 p.m. New England School of Oom Yung Doe, 576 Washington St., Brighton. Free. 2) Calling Indie Wannabes The Grammy-nominated rockers of Death Cab for Cutie will return to Boston after playing to a full house at the same venue back in 2006. Friday, Oct. 3 at 7:30 p.m. Agganis Arena, Boston University. $33.50. 3) Rock the Vote, Literally Politics is for hipsters! McCain watches...
...rebuke to the Reagan Administration's support for the right-to-life movement. Two days earlier, by a 5-to-3 vote, the court restricted the Government's attempt to police the quality of medical care received by severely handicapped infants. Striking down the Administration's controversial ''Baby Doe'' regulations, the Justices ruled that the Department of Health and Human Services had no authority to pressure hospitals to treat handicapped newborns without parental consent. Solicitor General Charles Fried, who last summer argued the Administration's case for upholding the Pennsylvania law, stood up to the judicial barrage at a press...
...antibiotics. But they vetoed corrective surgery that would have prolonged her life and left her severely retarded. Suits filed by a Vermont right-to-life attorney who had no direct interest in the case and by HHS, acting on the basis of the Baby Doe rules, were dismissed. Ultimately, the American Hospital Association and other groups sued to challenge the validity of the regulations and end what they considered harassment. This suit was subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Writing for four of the Justices,* Justice John Paul Stevens noted that federal law ''does not authorize the Secretary...
FOOTNOTE: *Chief Justice Burger concurred in the Baby Doe judgment, but he did not join in the opinion or explain his reasoning...
...Libertarianism is hard to disagree with: freedom. Defining it is another matter. Party members I've met often speak of freedom as if it were a phantom limb: you're born with it, but it gets taken from you by the bureaucratic violence of the EPA, the ATF, the DOE, the DEA, the U.N., NCLB, NAFTA and--above all--the IRS. Freedom's restoration is the magic moment when the nanny state melts away and you can see the life you were supposed to live before the tax auditors and environmental regulators and drug warriors all came to rope, brand...