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George Bush says a woman should be able to get an abortion when she has been the victim of rape or incest. Yet the President last week announced that he would veto a bill that would provide Medicaid money to pay for such abortions. The bill put Bush in a difficult position. By denying the Medicaid funds, he was making abortion in those cases an alternative only for women who can afford it. But if he made federal funds available for the poor, he risked alienating his right-to-life constituency. Bush said he did not want to "compound...
Baker, sadly enough, never learned how or when to quit. She spent francs as fast as she earned them, and her last years were marked by humiliations: mortgage foreclosure on the rambling country home she built for the Tribe, increasingly inept and desperate "farewell" performances to pay overdue bills. But when the end came, Paris remembered what it, and the world, had lost. In 1940-42 Baker had been a spy of sorts for De Gaulle's Free French, and later in the war, she made endless appearances as a troop entertainer. At the historic Madeleine church, her flag-bedecked...
Lodging rates range from $135 for a single room to $1,500 for the presidential suite. Foreigners must pay for their rooms in dollars, which will provide some much needed hard currency for Poland's government. The hotel hopes to attract swarms of Western business travelers, many of them from the U.S. Says William Tiefel, president of Marriott Hotels and Resorts: "A great many Polish Americans gave us a nudge in the right direction...
...smaller schools like Smith College, administrators say they're concerned students--whom the investigation is aimed at helping--will eventually pay the price...
Johnson points to a case last year as an example of the widespread problems with fake ID's at Harvard. In February, a first-year student was charged with mass production of driver's licenses. He received three years probation and was ordered to pay $1000 in court costs after he admitted there were "sufficient facts" for his conviction...