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...verdict and could rule as early as this week. The law requires them to protect the child. But which child, and at what cost to the other? At a hearing last week one judge wondered whether Mary could be viewed as a kind of unjust aggressor, sapping Jodie's lifeblood to the point of killing her, thus entitling Jodie to self-defense. That seems farfetched: it's hard to attribute aggression to a newborn or bestow the self-defense right on a third party like a doctor. The judges appeared last week to be leaning toward the grim conclusion that...
...almost always deliberate attempts to use the media to the advantage of those releasing the information. And that requires that journalists and editors maintain a healthy skepticism of whatever is gleaned from such sources, always assessing the motive for its release. Of course, such sources are the very lifeblood of the profession, but serving the public means that there is a need to filter and question, even when the intimidating notion of "national interest" is brought to bear...
...after the standoffs with security and the run-ins with Long Beach police, the principals on both sides of the fray did their best to gaze into a glorious electoral future with a straight face. And the next chapter in this two-roads-diverged saga is the $12.6 million lifeblood in federal matching funds, which both Reform parties insist is rightfully theirs...
According to a report written by then-Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III and Coordinator of Student Activities Susan T. Cooke, the number of student groups has almost tripled from 90 in 1980 to 241 two years ago. Consequently, student groups--the lifeblood of student life--live in dorm basements or Loker Commons lockers. A student center--a place that would combine space for student group offices and other recreational activity--would unify an increasingly fragmented student body...
...Davis, teaching and advising students are his lifeblood...