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Wednesday’s ill-considered decision will have the worst possible repercussions for American women. It will propel the anti-abortion movement forward until the nation finds itself a repressive land of back-alley abortions. The Supreme Court has no more notion of what goes on in an operating room than it does in a woman’s mind—and it should not presume to legislate on either...
...Student Affairs Committee, Michael R. Ragalie ’09, walks in at 7:40.Despite his tardiness, Ragalie makes his presence quickly known, adding a proposal for a vote-tracking graphic to a list of ideas that already includes casting Petersen as a walking billboard. Sundquist writes the notion off to Ragalie’s sleep-addled state, and Nowski points to the dining halls as a focal point for voter recruitment. “We can go into dining halls and annoy them,” says Sundquist. “Not annoy them...prod them...
...Presidential campaign gets off to a fast, early start, the notion of tweaking the mental health laws rather than pushing gun control legislation in vain has its obvious appeal, particularly among centrist Democrats who are hesitant to alienate the gun lobby in key battleground states. In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre none other than former President Bill Clinton, who in the past has blamed some national Democratic party losses on the gun control debate, has added his voice to a chorus of others this week calling for a different approach. When Larry King asked Clinton Thursday about...
...beauty of American Idol is the notion that my vote could change someone else's life for the better [April 16]. But the powers that be at Idol have gone out of their way to undermine winning candidate Taylor Hicks. My hours on the phone were rewarded last month in Nashville when Hicks delivered an emotional performance of everything from his original music to that of the Carter Family. It was the best vote I have cast in 28 years...
...since he spent the bulk of his life immersed in American culture. Still, a collective sense of regret and guilt was palpable today due to the strong tendency of Koreans to perceive the tragedy in terms of Korean nationalism, in which the group trumps the individual. "It's a notion of collective responsibility," says Mike Breen, the author of The Koreans. When a Korean does something wonderful, the country rejoices, but when one of its own goes off the rails, like Cho Seung-Hui, there's a collective sense of shame and burden. So much so that South Korea...