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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...
...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...
...Attorney General Menachem Mazuz plans to conduct a hearing in the next few days before deciding on whether to proceed with the indictment. But legislators and women's groups on Tuesday called for the president to resign; otherwise, they say they will impeach him. Yossi Beilin, leader of the leftist Meretz Party, said: "The damage that has been done to this institution over the last few months is so great that only his immediate resignation can assist the institution's immediate recovery." Israel's presidency is a symbolic rather than an executive position, but it's precisely because the president...