Word: heart
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Bossert, who until recently has been against extending universal keycard access, said that concern for students' security led to his change of heart...
...more mixed. On the one hand, there were the babies, seven tiny bundles that were truly a miracle of life and science. On the other hand, here were seven babies, undersized, one critical, the rest in serious condition in an Iowa hospital, with a difficult future ahead. At the heart of it was Bobbi McCaughey, who gave birth to septuplets Wednesday after more than 40 specialists spent six minutes to deliver the babies by C-section. Only the second known time that a woman has born seven live babies raised new questions about the advisability of unpredictable fertility treatments that...
Outcry arose from the bill's supporters (politicians and citizens alike), who condemned Slattery for his change of heart. Acting Governor A. Paul Cellucci, no doubt with one eye on next year's gubernatorial election, angrily denounced him and the bill's other opponents. Some citizens went so far as to leave threatening messages on Slattery's home answering machine, prompted by Boston Herald columnist and radio talk show host Howie Carr, who repeatedly announced the representative's home number and address on the air. Given this excessively antagonistic response, Slattery's apparently conscience-driven vote-change seems even more...
Slattery's change of heart was prompted by a combination of doubts about his original vote and by the controversial verdict in the Louise Woodward murder trial. Whatever Slattery's thought process, his willingness to change his mind in the face of great opposition is commendable. "I just don't want to be lying in my bed at 12:01 a.m., 15 years from now, knowing that someone is being put to death, that I helped create the mechanism for putting that person to death and not being sure that person being put to death deserved what...
...front third of the aircraft was ripped off by an explosion in the center fuel tank. Seconds later, the plummeting remainder was consumed by flames. This was not for the faint of heart, the Bureau's assistant director James Kallstrom warned, but insisted the American people deserved...