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...from flyers posted on walls and bulletin boards across campus last week. With chiding eyes, she asked us whether she deserved the death sentence that we, society, had given her. Her full lips rebuked us, and her flaxen locks seemed to shine with lost potential. Then she delivered her punch line: She had been conceived through rape, and her “death penalty” was an abortion, one that society would have permitted to take place. Her message was clear: Abortions, regardless of the means of conception, are murder...
...script that plays like Charlie Kaufman Lite: that should send up breakthrough and Oscar signals. It doesn't quite, though. The movie is clever, but a little too pleased with its own clockwork intricacy. Director Marc Forster and a tony cast (Dustin Hoffman, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Queen Latifah) hit every punch line with a gong, and Ferrell, who's quiet and fine, seems as lost among them as Harold is in his suddenly fictional world...
...It’s punch season again, and this year it’s really getting to us. We are sick of seeing sophomores dressed to impress at 7 p.m., only to return at 2 a.m tearing each other’s clothes off and pulling the trigger in the stairwells. Honestly, since when is social standing based on how much you can drink? It saddens us that many underclassmen, whom we had previously respected, are buying into this insanely sexist system. These all-female clubs are out of control; we speak for all men on campus when...
...book by Goss could be the second of a potentially juicy one-two punch by former intelligence chiefs. In February, Goss's predecessor as CIA director, George Tenet, will release his own book, At the Center of the Storm (HarperCollins). "It's expected to be hard hitting," says a person familiar with Tenet's nearly finished manuscript. "The facts are pretty compelling." Despite his insistence that he will play nice, Goss could join Tenet in shedding light on a number of major issues. They range from Bush's handling of Iraq and the extent of Vice President Cheney's influence...
Perhaps the biggest fallacy in this debate is the notion that elections were perfect before Congress decided to hold them on computers. They weren't. "Stuffing the ballot box" is not an expression from the world of fiction. The problem with overvoting punch cards existed for decades before the dateline PALM BEACH COUNTY became a household term. Peoria County clerk JoAnn Thomas says she routinely tossed out several hundred twice-punched ballots every year. That represents roughly 1% of all registered voters in her jurisdiction...