Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Approaching the case of Baby M the New Jersey Supreme Court might have wished for the sword of Solomon -- not to divide the child, but to cut through the Gordian thicket of paradox, bad faith and conflicting feelings that has surrounded the matter from the start. As it turned out, in a unanimous ruling last week the court sliced the issue in a way that gave important concessions to both the parents, but cut to the quick the practice of surrogacy...
...that concession may not amount to much. How many women would be likely to bear a child without compensation? And how many infertile couples would be as willing to go through the process, faced with the possibility that the mother might renege? Though the ruling applies only to New Jersey, that state's supreme court is one of the nation's most influential, especially in matters of bioethics. "This ruling deals a death blow" to the practice, says Jeremy Rifkin of the National Coalition Against Surrogacy. About 27 states have considered legislation on surrogacy, ranging from regulation to outright prohibition...
...Harvard seniors will be spending next year at Cambridge University in England as this year's winners of the Lt. Charles Henry Fiske III Scholarship and Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholarship...
...earth on the underside of the crystal globe. Even as a child, he had a passion for wild flowers. Now, as a working artist, he improved his knowledge of their shape and form by studying flowers he found growing behind his house or on long walks in New Jersey's wild and beautiful Pine Barrens. The idea, he says, is "to submerge myself in nature, so that the more familiar I become with flowers, the more that understanding will come through in my work...
...dark side of William Buckley may be Morton Downey Jr., a sneering mud wrestler who runs a nightly talk show out of New Jersey. That, of course, is not journalism. But otherwise respectable reporters and commentators come close sometimes to the circus form of opinion slinging. Consider the McLaughlin Group, presided over by the amiably thunder-browed ex-Jesuit John McLaughlin, who once worked as a speechwriter in Richard Nixon's White House. The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts...