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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What has worked in Carter's favor is the trust that voters still have in Carter as a person. His rating in this area is scarcely impressive -voters were evenly divided among those who trust him and those who have doubts-but more voters express doubts about Ted Kennedy than express full trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Kennedy's Lead Is Shrinking | 11/12/1979 | See Source »

Holpuch says the group talks about practical problems like how to react "when a coach doesn't play you and you feel you're better than the person in the game." If God wanted her to be playing, she'd be on the court, she adds, admitting "There's a lot to be learned about pride from sitting on the bench...

Author: By Elizabeth H. Wiltshire, | Title: The Team Spirit | 11/9/1979 | See Source »

Eyewitnesses in the first trial testified that Leon Easterling was the only person who stabbed Puopolo and Thomas Lincoln '77, another team member. Mundy is trying to prove that all three defendants are guilty of first-degree murder because their attack on the football players was premeditated...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: D.A. Links Defendants' Actions As Puopolo Trial Continues | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Even if some "pro-choice" advocates might concede that abortion is murder, many might argue that under some circumstances inflicting pain on one person in order to lessen the pain of others is the lesser of two evils. In particular, many people feel that the right to abortion is vital to the liberation of women from oppression and the liberation of men from the role of oppressors. But if the women's movement claims to be an alternative to the politics of power and violence, of the strong asserting themselves at the expense of the weak, then it must either...

Author: By Lucy OKEEFE -, | Title: Why I Am Against Abortions | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Carter's hesitancy to recommend a course of action is not really surprising, however. After all, nobody wants to be the person to start the national battle over whose backyard should have which nuclear dump--especially in an election year. In the Northeast, which generates about 40 per cent of the nation's radioactive waste but has no disposal sites, state governments have followed the federal lead, skillfully avoiding the problem...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

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