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...recent years, the court's new conservative majority has been subjecting Roe to what looks like a reversal in slow motion. While never discarding the right to abortion altogether, the Justices have interpreted it so narrowly that states are now free to enact restrictions that would have been struck down in earlier years. The Pennsylvania case could complete the process -- especially now that conservative Clarence Thomas has probably tipped the court even further to the right...
...problem is to appoint a task force or study commission), and since then he has been working to repair the system. He hopes to reach a settlement before the suit comes to trial, now scheduled for March, and plans to call a special session of the legislature to enact reforms...
...there would be formidable logistical challenges to independence: the republic would have to set up its own border posts, enact its own citizenship laws and complete talks on removal of an estimated 1.2 million Soviet soldiers. The Ukraine's Parliament already has voted to create its own army and currency...
...State University of New York at Buffalo. The first act, about the world she came from, is diffuse, as much panorama as autobiography. The second is more tightly personal, yet it too derives from the oldest notion of the theater -- as pure storytelling. Three stunningly gifted women describe and enact the many characters. Sybil Walker excels in sly and sassy moments, Jacqueline Williams in raucous and unaffected ones, and Cheryl Lynn Bruce radiates quiet strength. They share roles, including that of the author, with a fluidity that makes an extremely theatrical event seem natural and engagingly offhand...
DESPITE CHARGES of authoritarianism, Gorbachev's record in office entitles him to ask for the necessary authority to enact a reform program that eventually should employ the creation of a market economy in the Soviet Union and the establishment of a new federation based on consent rather than coercion. If he should be faulted, it would be on one point: his boundless confidence and ambition to harness his country's potential has led him to ignore an essential aspect of politics--that human beings do not always react the way one believes they will when designing programs for them...