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There are times when the government lays its hands, sometimes not so gently, on the human body. But the judicial system's responsibility to justify its actions grows heavier as it presumes to act more seriously against the flesh -- or one's "bodily integrity," as some legal thinkers and ethicists put it. At one end of the spectrum is the police officer who gently pushes back a crowd when a parade comes down the street. At the other end is the executioner. In between are compulsory blood tests for drug use or AIDS, court-imposed caesareans and the sterilizations that...
...sick," also visited the accused man in jail, amid reports that Butler himself may be wavering. Without a prisoner's agreement, a Texas appeals court is unlikely to approve a castration. Not so long as the law still holds that no sentence should be written into a prisoner's flesh...
...really? Try telling that to Denmark, whose anthem graphically commemorates the exploits of King Christian: "His sword was hammering so fast/ Through Gothic helm and brain it passed." Or the Chinese, whose national ditty is a paean to the prospect of "using our flesh and blood to build a new Great Wall." Guatemalans are admonished never to permit "tyrants to spit in thy face." And who could forget the immortal words in the second verse of the Bulgarian national song: "Countless warriors bravely die/ For the people's sacred cause." Such a roster would be incomplete without the heady draught...
...primary season enters a crucial stage, there are signs that Brown's anti-establishment message is catching on--and that his bare-bones campaign may be adding some flesh...
...Left: What's Left?--by Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College; Becky Johnson, director, Women's Economic Development Project of Women for Economic Justice; and John Preston, author of Flesh and the Word. Boylston Hall, Auditorium, 7:30 p.m. $3 donation...