Word: parts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of the Court's ruling on which Farrar pinned her hopes. She is serving a prison term for forgery. She is pregnant...
...major fallacy in pro-life dogma. How can Farrar's unborn child have the right to get out of state prison when it is trapped in a biological one? A fetus is by definition imprisoned. It has no freedom of motion or decision-making power. It is part of its mother's body...
...week after the demonstration, in which more than 300,000 people from around the country participated, the New York Times disclosed that its Supreme Court reporter Linda Greenhouse had marched, in violation of the paper's policy. The Washington Post also admitted that several of its reporters had taken part. It ordered those who had done so to abstain from covering abortion-related stories in the future...
...reporters and editors, that is a necessary trade-off in order to enjoy the benefits of the profession. "When you decide to become a journalist," says the Post's venerable political reporter and columnist David Broder, "you accept a lot of inhibitions that come with the responsibility of being part of a private business that performs a very important public service...
Having found an idea for a play with which he felt completely attunded -- "I also knew it would not hurt in commercial or career terms to be able to create a great part for a white male" -- Hwang struggled to find a structure that would keep his audience at a comfortable distance from the sexually threatening story line. One day, as he was driving past a Los Angeles record store, he recalled the opera whose title he and his friends so scornfully invoked in college. "I hit on the idea of deconstructing Madama Butterfly, and popped in on impulse...