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Limning a dystopian future America as “a repressive land of back-alley abortions,” The Harvard Crimson offered a stirring denunciation of the Gonzales decision. “At best,” The Crimson warned, “this reversal of precedent is worrisome, poaching abortion rights today; at worst, it is simply wrong—the first step toward completely denying a woman’s right to choose tomorrow.” The coup de grâce was saved, however, for the final paragraph: the Court?...
...gain approval from the City of Boston, Harvard must submit a plan that ensures “that activities of any land developer are going to keep people safe,” Spiegelman added...
...seminal 1975 album, “Horses,” Smith appropriated Van Morrison’s “Gloria” and soul classic “Land of a Thousand Dances” for her own revolutionary purposes. Those two songs were no more than 15 years old when she reinvented them. But now, Smith has lost all touch with the present. Like her fellow Green Party yes-men (and yes-women), she lives in a frozen world, and she’s happily ignorant of what’s around...
...America, aboard one of three ships that would land at Jamestown, one passenger seemed to grate on the rest like a splintered oar. He was a stocky, sawed-off stub of a man; a seasoned war fighter with a valiant past he seldom tired of highlighting; an unconscionable braggart of modest means who resented the blue bloods among the group; a bigmouthed know-it-all with a sanctimonious air and little or no regard for decorum. His name was John Smith...
...head upon an altar of stone and prepare to beat out his brains with clubs. But Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas intervened (see following story), and the chief embraced Smith as one of his own, giving him the honorary tribal name of Nantaquoud. He even offered Smith some nearby land. Smith instead returned to Jamestown, where his adversaries charged him with negligence in the death of two of his men killed by Indians. Smith was sentenced, again, to be hanged. Hours before he was to swing, Newport arrived up the James River with fresh settlers and supplies, intervening once more...