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...fertilized egg is just a mass of cells. However, when it comes to partial-birth abortion, which involves partially delivering a 5-6 month old fetus before killing it, it is very difficult for me to stomach any argument for why such a procedure should ever be permitted, except to preserve the health of the mother. In 2000 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of this procedure, but then it was outlawed in 2003 by the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act. Last week, the Supreme Court agreed to consider again the constitutionality of this abominable procedure. If the Court were...
...With Australia having begun what looms as a tense tour of South Africa, it's timely to remember an innocent Ponting's fascination with cricket - and to hope that he remembers it too. On results, it would be silly to claim that he's failed as skipper. Except when they lost the Ashes five months ago, Australia under Ponting have trampled everyone in their path. He has played numerous sublime captain's knocks, and clearly has the respect, loyalty and affection of his players. But on another level, Australian cricket has suffered under a leader whose goals seem too narrow...
...state of being. A floating world. Everything was reversed. The stability and security came to these people from movement rather than from ordinary life rooted on the land. Identities were transformed. Nothing like it had been seen before on the continent, and nothing like it has been seen since. Except for Hurricane Katrina. I'M SURE THERE ARE NOVELISTS ALREADY TAKING A CRACK AT KATRINA. Probably there will be. Certainly I'm not the kind of novelist who turns around quickly. I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around...
Solid training is a key to the Latin influx. In contrast to the U.S., where training is haphazard except at a few top companies, many Latin countries have excellent ballet schools, often subsidized by the government, where youngsters are put through a rigorous classical regimen. Spain boasts a fine school run by former Maurice Béjart dancer Víctor Ullate. Argentina has another, at the century-old Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires. But the most celebrated and influential school in the Latin world is the one attached to Cuba's National Ballet, supported by Castro since 1959 and presided...
...good team like that, you’re not going to get a lot of clean plays for goals.”AROUND THE LEAGUEComing into the weekend, only No. 9 Cornell had clinched a first-round bye in the ECAC playoffs, and virtually all seeds—except for Brown’s stranglehold on last place—were up for grabs.The Big Red, who would have secured first place with two wins, knocked itself out of the league lead with a shocking 2-0 loss at Rensselaer on Friday.The upset allowed Dartmouth and Colgate, teams that both...