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Lynn Shapiro, founder, choreographer and director of a New York based dance company, has withdrawn her dance piece "Under Ice" after Iris Fanger, director of the Dance Center in the Harvard Summer School, required that she change scenes which contained male and female frontal nudity, Shapiro said...
...hundreds of patients, and she and her husband have identified regions they think may serve as convergence zones in the brain's left hemisphere. An area in the temporal lobe pulls together information about the names of objects, animals and people, for instance, while another area in the frontal cortex appears to act as the nexus for verbs. Yet a third oversees the task of assembling nouns and verbs into sentences...
...providers criminally liable for any obscene communications that passed through their systems--a provision that, given the way the networks operate, would have put the entire Internet at risk. Exon and Coats revised the bill but left in place the language about using "indecent" words online. "It's a frontal assault on the First Amendment," says Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe. Even veteran prosecutors ridicule it. "It won't pass scrutiny even in misdemeanor court," says...
...intense struggle rages in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing--a fight to define exactly what transpired on April 19. Our nation's leaders and our mainstream media have essentially construed the bombing as a frontal assault on the idea of America, a sort of sharp uppercut at the nerve center of our nation. At the same time, however, a 'revisionist school' has emerged, dedicated to stripping away layers of myth and metaphor and understanding the bombing in the context of a series of tragic events, foremost among them, the FBI raid on the Waco compound two years prior...
...after his first concrete veto threat (against certain spending cuts in the current budget), President Clinton took aim at two more congressional proposals. G.O.P. leaders in the House postponed a vote on their foreign-aid bill after the President blasted its cuts and its "isolationist" policy directives as a "frontal assault" on presidential authority. Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned that a presidential veto would await any attempt to revamp the federal food-stamp program into a block-grant package to the states...