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...coming years, Operation Rescue will most likely become more desperate. Their attempt to stop abortions will become more violent--while they profess to be a pro-life organization trying to protect children from being killed, they are perfectly willing to humiliate and inflict physical and psychological harm on women who are already living...
...profess to have found the key to spiritual calm and the quintessential soul-searching experience in a weekend trip to the mountains. I know a fragment more about Buddhist philosophy. A few new yoga bends (asanas), maybe. A new way of life...
...Iceman's appeal is universal. Austrians have fondly nicknamed him "Oetzi" (after the Oetztaler Alps). Thousands of people worldwide have written to express their interest or profess kinship. Some claim to have communicated with him, while several women, unaware of the Iceman's castration, have volunteered to be impregnated with his sperm. In South Tyrol, a small tourist industry, replete with T shirts, pamphlets and escorted hikes to the recovery site, is already flourishing. And proud provincial officials are planning to build a museum around the Iceman and display him in some sort of refrigerated showcase...
...lose, thousands of Republican officials may get an up-close look at the unemployment problem. In power for 12 years, they have decried the public sector while doing well enough in it to live in big houses and drive expensive cars. As they return to the private sector they profess to love, they may find that the free market is not as great in reality as it is in theory. With both the White House and Congress controlled by the Democrats, there will not be much demand for G.O.P. veterans. And it will take a unique kind of resume inflation...
Clinton strategists profess to be sanguine. "The Perot candidacy is a missile in directed flight against Bush," says George Shipley, a Democratic consultant in Texas. "That's his whole game." Bush's advisers do worry about losing Texas. But they argue, perhaps wishfully, that Perot could diminish Clinton's overpowering lead in California to the point where Bush would be competitive there. If the numbers in the nation's largest state begin to change, Bush would divert money and time to the West Coast. That would force Clinton to do the same in the final weeks. Clinton's pollster, Stan...