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Other entertainers included Princeton graduate Katherine Healy and Boston University student Karen Kwan...
Youthful supersuccess can be fascinating--and fragile. It's hard to recall the last time that former pop teen sensation Debbie Gibson got any real radio airplay; and it's difficult to forget those photos of Michelle Kwan, 16, slipping in last month's U.S. figure-skating championships. For Rimes, so far, there have been few stumbles. She was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and raised in Garland, Texas, by her mother Belinda, a homemaker, and her father Wilbur, a seismic-supply salesman who peddled drilling rigs, metal pipes and the like before quitting to co-manage his only child...
Though I very much respect the desire of Mr. Joshua Kwan to "make heads (or) tails of the abortion debate"--and wish many more people were so earnest about looking at the issue--I felt compelled to respond to several assertions made in his Feb. 22 op-ed piece about finding the "middle ground among extremes." "In America," says Kwan, "I am free to choose any definition oflife I please." Perhaps, but I certainly hope I am not free to act on any definition of life I please. A great many American citizens once held that people of darker skin...
...Gone are the days of Prohibition, when a vocal group of activists were able to impose their morality upon the rest of the nation," says Mr. Kwan, implying that the two issues--Prohibition and abortion--are on more or less the same level. Aside from the fact that both movements consisted of "activists" intent on changing the law, I somehow do not see much of a connection. The abortion debate strikes such raw nerves because it is fundamentally about human life and whether or not I or anyone else may arbitrarily decide on it's definition. Prohibition was fundamentally about...
...Kwan states that "Americans are reluctant to impose their morals on the great public. Despite their individual misgivings about abortion, they would rather allow each women to make the choice on her own." This is the exact same line of argument that perpetuated slavery. Many citizens believed slavery was wrong but were reluctant to impose their morals on others. Jesse Jackson (pro-life before running for president) once said, "There are those who argue that the right to privacy is of a higher order than the right to life...that was the premise of slavery. You could not protest...