Word: orderlies
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...endangered. The President vetoed the ban on the procedure precisely because it did not include a clause for health-endangering situations. He was right to do so. It is a dangerous and delicate thing when the government starts making laws about what procedures doctors can and cannot perform in order to protect a patient's life or health, and this ban clearly was such legislation at its worst. By failing to protect the mother's health the ban effectively placed the fetus in a position of higher importance than the mother, a clear violation of women's Constitutional rights under...
...that Bush can claim. And even though Bush has inherited and adopted traditionally Democratic attitudes towards education, he has been willing to take even more radical steps for improvement. Bush's radical methods have also had detractors; unfortunately, both Democratic candidates have tiptoed around the issue of testing in order to improve performance...
...when I got to college and was confronted with Harvard's similar no-cable policies and, furthermore, a reduced fare of five viewable channels, the television was no more enticing. Freshman year, we didn't even have a set in our suite. When study breaks were in order, we'd go across the hall where the reception was so fuzzy that the majority of the dialogue was drowned out by yelling back and forth at one other to adjust the antenna...
...Nigerian military that lasting political and economic progress can go hand-in-hand in Nigeria. Perhaps this is true for many other developing countries. President Obasanjo is in a unique position to embark on such a strategy. The idea of pulling Nigerian troops from international missions in order to save money towards the national debt is a brilliant first step that can be taken to disguise the critical issue of reducing the size and power of the military. The international community should support such a plan instead of or as a complement to the somewhat troublesome proposal to forgive...
...Mary with manure. What horrifies me is the idea that, as Rabelais once put it, to "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law"--the concept that one's own desire is all that matters. I dislike this principle, not because I'm a law-and-order conservative but because it's a philosophy of vanity, and because vanity and happiness are incompatible. It's a wile, a deception that promises the world and delivers nothing, or, as C. S. Lewis put it, one in which the disciple will "find his heart's desire, and find despair...