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...There are two trends at work here," says Rachel Roth, assistant professor of political science at Washington University in St. Louis. "First, we see the increasingly restrictive nature of the Hyde amendment as it's adapted by individual states. But we're also seeing that second trend: Women reacting to those restrictions and forcing the courts to make a decision...
...Idaho's new law is widely expected to be challenged in Idaho's Supreme Court. In 1994, a federal judge reviewed state legislation containing identical guidelines and ruled it unconstitutional. And because it addresses the question of access, which, says Roth, is fast becoming the central issue of the modern abortion debate, the new legislation could even make its way to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...quite prepared readers for the sustained comic exuberance of Paradise Park (Dial; 360 pages; $24.95). Her earlier work certainly wasn't grim, but it tended toward the polished and well mannered and resonant, a la 19th century British fiction. Not this time. Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth before her, Goodman has achieved a breakthrough book by discovering and recording a thoroughly uninhibited narrative voice. Bellow found Augie March, and Roth hit upon Alexander Portnoy. Goodman gives the world Sharon Spiegelman...
...People who want to clone their DNA so they can have a Mini-Me running around need to have their head examined." CHERYL ROTH Sugar Grove...
...raises some limits. The child credit, which he wants to double to $1,000, wouldn't begin to phase out until annual household income reaches $200,000--up from $110,000 for couples and $75,000 for singles. It's also likely that the threshold for converting to a Roth would jump to $160,000 and that the threshold for new Roth contributions would be indexed to rise with inflation. On another front, though, Bush is proposing yet another means test. Couples earning $160,000 would not be eligible for a $5,000-per-child deduction for education expense...