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...coercion as well, but Lorrie says the last thing she wants to do is perform an abortion on a woman who is confused or ambivalent or being pressured by her parents or boyfriend. If Lorrie senses second thoughts, even at the last minute, she says she refuses to proceed. "This happens at least once a month," Lorrie says. "I don't care if her parents are in the waiting room. It's her decision." In those cases, she points patients to public and private groups that can help with financial, social or emotional support in carrying the pregnancy to term...
...first section, Munro’s attempts to imagine, describe and fill in the details of the lives of her ancestors in Scotland’s Ettrick Valley run into the problem that most historical narratives and memoirs have to deal with: real life doesn’t proceed at all like fiction. It has no well-structured plot or narrative, and one thing doesn’t elegantly lead to another.As a result, the writer has to make do with some combination of describing the quotidian (a difficult task for past events that can only be accessed indirectly...
...mill, middle-class household, only to get into what is clearly not a run of the mill Lamborghini. Jeezy dons gigantic sunglasses that serve to make his bald head look extra conical and ridiculous. Jeezy and his “boy Kells” then proceed to pose for the camera while a woman with a tarantula tattooed on her armpit moves her body voluptuously before the mural-covered, black and white wall. Cut to scene two: Jeezy sitting on his black bed, with the camera alternating between straight shots and profiles of his face. Following Jeezy?...
...said Geoffrey D. Kearney ’07, one of the amendment’s more vocal defendants. Despite such testimony, the amendment was declined and the proposed act passed, leaving freshmen with $100 party grants for the next couple of weeks. The meeting was then allowed to proceed to the more ceremonial business of recognizing various representatives for a term well-spent. Following remarks by Financial Committee leader Lori M. Adelman ’08 and Student Affairs Committee head Petersen, Kearney issued a rendition of S Club 7’s “Never Had a Dream...
...fight over resolutions may seem symbolic - President Bush has insisted the surge will proceed regardless of what the Senate says - but there are important political consequences to Warner's battle. The future of both parties, in 2008 and beyond, may hinge on their ability to strike the right chord on Iraq, defiant of the President yet tough-minded enough to reassure voters for whom national security is still a major issue...