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Spencer's marriage to the former model Victoria Lockwood fell apart three years ago. But only last week did the two parties engage in bitter court battle to decide whether their divorce should proceed in Britain or in South Africa, where both now reside. Lockwood, who wants the case moved back to Britain, claimed that the couple did not expect to live permanently in South Africa and that Spencer had lied about his reasons for moving the family there in the first place. He said, she said, that the move was to allow their children to escape the glare...
...justice must be served in a slow and deliberate, not swift and sure, manner. When society makes the grim decision to put an individual to death, when it terminates its end of the social contract with a human being who has broken his side of the deal, society must proceed as deliberately and as scrupulously as possible. The value of capital punishment lies not in easing the pain of the victims' loved ones but in providing society with a tool that it can use, in exceptional situations, to destroy the absolutely irredeemable...
President Clinton says it should be different this time. The inspectors, he said last week, "must be able to proceed with their work without interference, to find, to destroy, to prevent Iraq from rebuilding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." But that is what Saddam agreed to after his defeat in 1991, so no one can assume he means it this time. The U.S. does have the muscle in place in the gulf to hit Saddam with bombs and missiles if he does not comply with U.N. orders. Washington says it will wait and see. But is Clinton ready to bomb...
...blink compared with the brave women who soldier on year after year. I found every moment of that battle against biology a nightmare. The first salvo was Clomid, prescribed by a gynecologist who, upon learning that I was 37 and Joe 50, warned, "Given your ages, you should proceed as quickly as possible." Eager to hasten a pregnancy that already felt long overdue, I swallowed the pills. But rather than stimulating more eggs, the drug plunged me into a deep depression that left me unable to sleep, eat or think of anything but babies...
...twice-daily urine tests, designed to pinpoint ovulation, each of which required an hour of vigilance as I transferred the specimen between three vials at precise intervals? What if my luteinizing hormone surged before we received the results of Joe's latest sperm tests? Would the doctor still proceed with the intrauterine insemination? Timing, of course, was of the essence; miss the narrow window of opportunity and I would be sentenced to weeks of worrying about whether I could handle another rocky cycle of skeptical hope and certain despair...