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Abortion is a nuanced issue that deserves more nuanced treatment than it gets on either end. But there’s an element of reality that both sides seem to overlook. I have a bold suggestion. The Democrats need to insert (no pun intended) sex back into the discourse. Let’s start with the basics: you can’t get pregnant if you don’t have sex. You can’t have an abortion if you don’t get pregnant. Wait, hold on a second. Let’s backpedal to that...

Author: By Sarah M. Seltzer, POP AND FIZZ | Title: Let’s Talk About… You Know | 3/11/2005 | See Source »

...good pun and you were hoping I would say that...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates on "Gates" | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...only if you’re at The Delphic and are out of “magic pills” for your lady friend. Just don’t expect her to crawl into bed with two other chicks while this cock-rock (pun most assuredly intended) soundtrack blares. Now if you put on some Journey, all bets are off?...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: Red, White and Crue | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...drama series on her, to be overseen by Glenn Gordon Caron of Moonlighting fame. The creator of a romantic private-eye series may not have seemed the natural choice to produce a creepy show about death and afterlife, but, DuBois says, "he really got the spirit--excuse the pun--of my work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Spirits of the Age | 2/6/2005 | See Source »

...post after he publicly sided with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters; in Beijing. Zhao joined the Communist Party in 1938 and eventually rose to be its General Secretary, a leader fondly remembered by many Chinese. Peasants in Sichuan used to say, "Yao chi liang, Zhao Ziyang," a rhyming pun that means, roughly, "If you want to eat, look for Zhao." After trying to prevent the brutal Tiananmen crackdown, he was purged and placed under house arrest, where he remained for the rest of his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Jan. 31, 2005 | 1/23/2005 | See Source »

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