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...Ovral, an emergency contraceptive drug for rape victims, induces abortion. At St. Louise, staff members will not give Ovral directly to rape victims, but they will allow a separate emergency-response unit to administer the drug on the premises. A similar kind of wiggle room is offered under mergers done according to the "community model." In that case, a Catholic hospital will join another institution and essentially tolerate forbidden practices in an area kept physically and administratively separate. That's how it works in Detroit, where a hospital has designated its top floor as a discrete facility that offers full...
Microsoft, for its part, deployed legions of spinners to argue that Jackson had it all wrong. The company had broken no laws and done no harm to consumers. The judge failed to appreciate the dynamic nature of the software business, which makes any dominant position inherently short-lived. The only lapse in Microsoft's genetic self-assurance was a video press release the company rushed on the air immediately after the ruling came down. "We hope we can find a way," Gates declared, "to resolve this and put it behind us." For a moment, he seemed to be waving...
...legal system up to it? The wheels of justice have always ground slowly--and even today the courts have more in common with Dickens' Bleak House than with the World Wide Web. By the lightning-paced standards of the computer industry, the law is positively glacial. After Jackson is done with the case, the appeals could drag on for two more years. That's a lifetime in Silicon Valley...
This can't be just any dress either. Luisana Cruz, a 17-year-old senior, is a finalist for homecoming queen at her mostly Hispanic school in the Lincoln Heights section of Los Angeles. She hopes to wear both a football helmet and a crown before the day is done on Friday. "I want it bad," says Cruz, who is also student-body president and is listed on the football program at 5 ft. 6 in., 151 lbs. "But that's with the pads," she says defensively of her weight. She doesn't have a date for the dance...
Smith has already done that by raising profound issues in a pop context, bringing God to the mallrats, making a good movie. That should be O.K. with the Lord...