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...unconstitutional—for the governor to withdraw the state’s National Guard from Iraq. But Brownsberger said, “I support our troops, and think they should come home.” He said the state needs the guard here to protect local gas reserves and to help in the event of a natural disaster. On abortion, Firenze opposes it in all cases, except for rape and incest. She stressed prevention of unwanted pregnancies through sex education and the morning-after pill. Brownsberger agreed with Firenze on the need to prevent unwanted pregnancies, but asserted that...
...young people can, and should, be scared into abstinence is simply false and leads uninformed teens to engage in unsafe sexual behavior. Rather, teens should be educated on the practices of safe sex and the risks associated with sexual intercourse so that they can make smart informed decisions and protect themselves with Gardasil, regardless of their sexual choices...
...India. Four years later, another president was due to visit the Kennedy School, this time the twice-elected former president of Iran, Khatami. Unlike Musharraf, Khatami endured attack and abuse from the outset.First, Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney, said he would not allow state resources to be used to protect the former president. Romney, although providing no evidence, cited Khatami’s role in terrorism and his human rights record as justification for the decision, telling The Boston Globe that “there are people in this state who have suffered from terrorism, and taking even a dollar...
...reason we want models to gain weight, let's face it, is not mostly to protect them. It's to protect other, less genetically freakish girls--our daughters or, ahem, us--from having poor self-esteem or becoming anorexic. But people don't get anorexia from looking at fashion magazines (although it doesn't help). Anorexia is as much about a girl feeling that her life is not in her control as it is about body image. So dictating to models what their body type should be, whether to make it bigger or smaller, seems to send the wrong message...
...could fill volumes detailing the geopolitical reasons America should abandon Darfur to its fate. The argument for military action, by contrast, rests on just two tarnished words. Last week a small crowd gathered in Kigali, Rwanda. "If you don't protect the people of Darfur today," said a man named Freddy Umutanguha, "never again will we believe you when you visit Rwanda's mass graves, look us in the eye and say 'Never again.'" Try offering a geopolitical answer to that...