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...choice team as well. The abortion pill shifts the focus from the latest stage of pregnancy to the earliest, when the entire embryo is the size of a grain of rice. For abortion-rights activists scarred by five years of fighting over "partial birth" abortions, that is where they prefer the public debate to take place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pill Arrives | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...then, preoccupation may be the key to this movie's success. All the members of the family are trying to focus on the wedding of Pam's sister, which means they would prefer Greg, the outsider, to be the fly on the wall, not the fly in the ointment. Alas, poor Focker. He can't help himself. And we can't help ourselves from falling about, equally helpless, at this superbly antic movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Divine Foolishness | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

...licensed hospital or clinic. Dr. Elizabeth Aubeny, one of the first physicians to test mifepristone, at the Broussais Hospital in Paris, contends there should be more flexibility in allowing women to take misoprostol at home, if they choose. Still, she admits, "there are a lot of women who prefer to stay in the hospital for three hours. They are afraid to be alone, afraid of the bleeding. For many it's psychological; they feel more reassured in a hospital than they do at home." Women who opt for the abortion pill must make up their minds very quickly. Since conception...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pharmacology: The Chemistry of Abortion | 10/9/2000 | See Source »

Although wins like Wednesday's will surely bolster the Crimson's regional ranking--Harvard and BC began the week No. 5 and No. 3 respectively--Harvard would prefer to assure itself a bid the old-fashioned...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Surging W. Soccer Hosts Struggling Cornell Today | 10/6/2000 | See Source »

That is the largest issue raised by the case--the jurisdiction of courts of law on a college campus. Currently, universities prefer to deal with most disciplinary matters in-house; 10 colleges in the area signed a legal brief supporting Brandeis in Shaer's case. There is a strong justification for a university disciplining its students in most cases--an institution of higher learning is a distinct community in which certain unique obligations exist between members. In addition, universities ought to have the ability to punish students for infractions of the rules that might not necessarily qualify as a crime...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Standing Up for Students | 10/5/2000 | See Source »

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