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...Indeed, last week's Middle East confrontation had Bush-folly written all over it-and not just because the Iranian government's cowboy faction might be strutting its stuff. Bush's failure to patiently broker a real Middle East settlement-mostly because he refused to speak to Yasser Arafat or demand concessions from the Israelis-helped lead to Israel's unilateral withdrawal policy in Gaza. Peace isn't made unilaterally. An unstated part of Israeli policy was that provocations by Hamas and Hizballah would have to be met with real force, lest it seem that Israel was merely retreating from...
...even if rape victims do get themselves to a hospital for treatment, she adds, it may not do any good. ?We?ve introduced a bill requiring emergency room doctors to tell assault victims about emergency contraception-they?re not required to provide it, just to tell patients about it-and that bill has repeatedly failed in the South Dakota Legislature.? South Dakota was among the earliest states to allow pharmacists to refuse to dispense Plan B, the ?morning-after pill,? if doing so violated their conscience...
What would be the best way to characterize the rivalry between the women's ice hockey teams of the U.S. and Canada, the only squads to ever win a gold medal? Spirited, perhaps, or impassioned. Those would be Olympian ways of putting it-and largely incorrect. "We dislike each other very much on the ice," says former U.S.A. star Cammi Granato. "There's no game I'd rather lace up the skates for. It's always an intense battle. Off ice, there's sort of a mutual respect. On ice, you're out for blood...
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...remarked, "Christianity is a religion for losers") because she feared he would have talked her out of it. "And he could have," she says. "I'm still not ready to defend it or analyze it or anything, but I have become moved by it, fascinated by it and helped by it-and I'm not even sure what it is. But I am humming with reverence and going at it in my usual full-bore...