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...given us the butch heroine--at once babe, district attorney and driving-men-crazy. She can be a victim, in, say, Thelma & Louise, an outlaw fantasy in which the women's suicide is seen as a magnificent screw-you gesture. Or she can be a victor, in Waiting to Exhale, where most of the guys are so lame and preening that there's little triumph in outsmarting them. The set piece in both films was blowing up an automobile: sexual revenge as car-nage. But that was not nearly so explosive as the smoulder of Sharon Stone's sexual menace...
...million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. Its rarity, however, takes nothing away from its horror, and all along, the symbolic importance of the issue has driven both sides of the debate. The ban that passed earlier this year was the first attempt by Congress to outlaw a specific abortion procedure in the 23 years since the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade...
...CAMEL A ban on brand-name paraphernalia aimed at teenagers threatens to make him an outlaw...
...defeated by taking more defensive measures, whether screening airline baggage more carefully or closing off Pennsylvania Avenue. If we are serious about fighting terrorism, we should increase our intelligence capabilities to infiltrate terrorist groups and render them ineffective, and we should, in concert with other nations, severely punish outlaw nations that sponsor and train terrorists. STEVEN J. WANGSNESS Seattle...
...determined that the anti-abortion plank in their party platform will not change. But many Republicans oppose the abortion ban. An Associated Press poll discovered a wide moderate streak on abortion among Republican National Convention delegates. About 34 percent want to remove the plank supporting a constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion, while fewer than half of the delegates want to retain the controversial language. A full quarter of the delegates do not know how they stand, or didn't answer the question. The moderates may have a highly placed friend. Presumptive presidential nominee Bob Dole wants it both ways...