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...procedure has been greatly distorted as proponents have politicized the practice, dubbing it “partial-birth abortion” and barraging Congressional discourse with anecdotal narratives entailing grisly depictions of the procedure. They fail, of course, to iterate that this procedure is used in less than one percent of abortion cases, is the safest method of second-trimester abortion and is often essential in protecting the life of the woman—clearly one of the more salient details in its defense...
...with predictable negativity. These recent critiques are the same obvious, tired critiques that have been voiced again and again for as long as the U.N. has been in existence. They are the same critiques that are voiced in The Crimson and the Salient. But they are all critiques that fail to explain how the United Nations’ Development Program improved the lives of farmers in West Africa, or how U.N. peacekeepers quelled violence in East Timor, or how the U.N. won the Centennial Nobel Peace Prize...
...officials in Iraq say their troops are coming under attack an average of 20 times a day. Most are small-bore, hit-and-run sallies that fail to exact any injuries. Yet seven of the soldiers killed last week were hit by small-arms fire, RPGs or mines. The U.S. has not been able to prevent its foes from getting access to explosives and weaponry. Arms caches can still be found throughout the country, largely unguarded by coalition forces. U.S. officials say they have discovered 105 major military arms dumps and scores of smaller ones storing perhaps 1 million tons...
...five members of The Strokes appear to have studiously avoided wandering under a showerhead since birth. Yet in photographs they never fail to appear devastatingly stylish, like a bunch of Bowery James Bonds. This poseurship is just one of the reasons it takes immense critical discipline not to hate them. The Strokes' effortlessness is pure fiction; not since the Velvet Underground met Andy Warhol has a band so effectively been art directed to achieve the look of not having been art directed. But when you hear the Strokes, that cultivated cool disperses with every passing guitar chord, and suddenly, just...
...does fail to protect women,” she said...