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...women who seek abortions seem to reinforce this—21 percent are teenagers, and well over half of unwed pregnant women will opt for an abortion. These figures should make clear that abortions are used primarily as an instrument of socioeconomic preservation—over one fifth of abortion-seekers, after all, are mere children who cannot support themselves independently, and many others lack a partner with whom to build an ideal family environment. It seems that in these cases, the ethical choice is not, in fact, to force these women to have babies for which they are both...
Coming a day after the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and following another videotaped al-Qaeda vow to stage new attacks, Tuesday morning's foiled terrorist raid on the American embassy in Damascus is certainly cause for U.S. concern. A Syrian interrogation of one surviving attacker will seek to determine whether the incident was in fact the work of al-Qaeda or that of other individuals seeking to add to the carnage. Anti-American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Sunday night, on the eve of the fifth 9/11 anniversary, docudrama was dynamite in North America. As millions in the U.S. watched the Clinton Administration botch snuffing out al-Qaeda on the first of ABC TV's two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11, hundreds of Canadians crowded into a Paramount multiplex theater to see the Toronto International Film Festival's world premiere of Death of a President, a sober fakeumentary from Britain's Channel 4 that imagines the assassination of the current President Bush in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2007, and depicts it in footage so persuasive that some...
...retailers for its precise deliveries and perfect execution (at the factory, each garment is accompanied by a dossier explaining what needs to be done and what can go wrong) as well as for actually listening to what stores want. When Joseph Boitano, a senior vice president of Saks Fifth Avenue, explained the importance of offering a cruise collection (a concept less established in Europe), Albert headed to Florida, where he spent weeks studying what chic women want on vacation...
...shock Harvard with a 30-28 victory, tying the match at two games apiece.“There were definitely times where we could have finished [the match] earlier than later,” Weiss acknowledged.Riding its momentum, Binghamton raced out to a 7-1 lead in the deciding fifth frame. The Crimson clawed its way back, getting within one before the Bearcats took five of the next six points to set up several match points at 14-9.But Harvard would not go away. After a kill by junior right-side hitter Mimi Hanley staved off the first match point, senior...