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Supporters of surrogacy have managed some lesser court victories in the past. Two years ago, for example, the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled that surrogate arrangements in themselves did not violate that state's public policy. "We're getting different decisions in different jurisdictions," says Michigan Attorney Noel Keane, one of the nation's chief surrogacy brokers and the man who helped arrange the birth of Baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Baby M Meets Solomon's Sword | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

Whether or not they bust the cap, most contenders in both parties will be nearly broke after New Hampshire. Only George Bush and Bob Dole among the Republicans and, to a lesser extent, Democrats Michael Dukakis and thrifty Albert Gore will have a comfortable cash cushion for the Super Tuesday primaries in the South. Even some of the early victors may be in trouble, since the rapacious demands of TV campaigns in the South could outstrip the abilities of their fund raisers. That is the underlying truth of presidential politics: it is extremely difficult to win without early money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Take It to the Limit - and Beyond | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...Manhattan's Beth Israel Medical Center. "It's wrong to think that as a group they don't care about their health." In fact, demand for IV drug-abuse treatment in New York increased after the news about AIDS hit the streets. "It is a classic case of a lesser evil," says the Rev. Roger Shinn, professor emeritus of social ethics at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. "The end, limiting the spread of AIDS, might justify the means, supplying needles to addicts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ethics: The Lesser of Two Evils | 2/15/1988 | See Source »

...others to say, and mentioned that he ran McGovern's campaign against the Vietnam War when no one else would touch it; that he voted against missile systems developed in Colorado; that he is the first candidate for president to refuse PAC money. There was one question of lesser quality; toward the end of the meeting a certain fellow asked if Gary Hart had ever smoked marijuana. The Senator replied that, as to the implicit character inquiry, for 200 years the standard has been the candidate's ability to govern, and as to the specific question of marijuana, to stentorian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Harsh on Hart | 2/9/1988 | See Source »

...such man was Leon Collins, who is the subject of Songs Unwritten: A Tap Dancer Remembered, a documentary by David Wadsworth '84. The project is the first in a series for The Leon Collins Archive, Inc., which Wadsworth hopes will bring recognition to Collins and other lesser-known jazz performers...

Author: By Andrew B. Osborne, | Title: Tapping a Wellspring of Talent | 2/5/1988 | See Source »

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