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...section only." To be taken on as a vaginal delivery patient, you either have to adjust your standards (elderly doctors are more receptive to the idea, but they're out of date with everything else) or audition. It took me four tries before I found my present doctor, a brilliant, European-trained woman who has never once promoted a C-section, and doesn't laugh at me when I ask questions like, "Will I need to wear a veil during labor?" (The answer is no, by the way, but that's because men, including one's husband, are banned from...
...avoid the subject wholesale by focusing intently on the present. Point to the splatter of vomit plastered on Quincy’s ceiling or your senior tutor’s feet, and do the whole wide-eyed wonder thing. Tease tourists. Gossip...
...political power to the warrior class centuries ago, but it has always been the center of Japan's cultural traditions. Its literature and history are intertwined with the Emperor and his court, and the educated class has always revered the imperial house as a symbol of Japanese culture. The present status of the imperial house is in accord with that tradition, while the modern political and military role of the Emperor is rather an anomaly. Shunichi Watanabe Sendai, Japan Cruelty on a Cracker "Banned: fine food and fun" [Sept. 4], which referred to Chicago's foie-gras...
...President Bush’s December 2004 law mandating that all schools receiving federal funding must provide an annual lesson on the founding document. To honor the anniversary of the Sept. 17, 1787 signing of the Constitution, Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign, and Comparative Law Gerald L. Neuman will present a free lecture open to all students and staff, titled “The Constitution and Human Rights in the War on Terror,” tomorrow from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, sponsored by the Provost’s office. Neuman said he plans...
...Mattson says that even the Islamic radicals whom she calls "the vigilantes" are not using the kind of thought process implied by Benedict when they plan their deadly acts. They present a number of arguments for suicide bombings and the killing of non-combatants, but none of them, at least explicitly, appeals to revelation over reason. Many of their assumptions are faith-based, but faith-based assumptions are involved, by definition, in any believer's acts. We may find the terrorists horribly unreasonable, but that doesn't make them avid footsoldiers in a philosophical Islamic war on reason...