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...Abortion is a highly emotional and personal issue in general because it touches upon people’s most sacred and natural rights: Their sovereignty over their bodies and their lives. This fact, however, should only challenge Harvard students to discuss the issue in as reasonable and open a manner as possible. This is an educational institution, and participants from both sides of the debate come to learn and participate in a safe environment as free from violent rhetoric as possible...
...rhetoric that Kabala was right to invoke was that which reminded us that abortion rights could be overturned in the very near future. That fact alone should convince Harvard students of the necessity of discussing abortion and picking apart the strands of the debate in an honest and open manner...
...pretty much figured that Slobodan up close would be a boorish thing, the media was evidently not so prepared. Dispatches from The Hague during the early stages of the former Yugoslavian dictator's war crimes trial deal almost cursorily with the substantive charges against him, focusing instead on his manner: how he refuses to read court minutes, refuses to meet with attorneys; how he smirks as charges are being read and badgers and dismisses witnesses as if they were the defendants and he the prosecutor. Imagine that, the press says with wondering nods. A dictator, a killer...
Most troubling, it's not just prolific-as-rabbits deer and other common prey that are being killed in such canned hunts, as they're sometimes called; it's rarer creatures too. All manner of exotics--including the Arabian oryx, the Nubian ibex, yaks, impalas and even the odd rhino, zebra or tiger--are being conscripted into the canned-hunt game and offered to sportsmen for "trophy fees...
...that movie, which drew critical praise at the Sundance Film Festival and will be released in the fall, Williams plays a lonely photo-shop employee who becomes obsessed with a family whose pictures he has developed for years. Filmed in the neon-lit canyons of a supermarket in the manner of a horror movie, it introduces us to a blank-faced and distinctly unfunny Williams. It's a tiny independent film, but the star had to do some persuading to get the part. "I had said I wanted to do something darker," he says. "I met with the director [Mark...