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Pinsker suggested that we should let the police "scoop them up one-by-one and arrest them for breaking the law." Pinsker fails to see that this process would take hours, and would almost certainly result in the closing of the clinic...
There should be some way for people to support a woman's right to choose without "protesting." We should hold silent vigils on other property. Operation Rescue can stage a protest, and the police can scoop them up one-by-one and arrest them for breaking...
...film title aptly reflects the film--forgetable and inappropriate. One scoop of chocolate, on scoop of vanilla, don't waste my time...
...primitive mining is illegal and dangerous, but the garimpeiros have ample reason to ignore the hazards: rarely in history have ordinary people managed to gain access to a place where gems are seemingly as plentiful as pebbles on a beach. "They scoop out the gravels, put them in a sieve, take them down to the river, wash them and then pick out the diamonds," explains Peter Gallegos, an official of the diamond firm De Beers. "It is a complete and uncontrolled bonanza...
Isaacson attributes the collapse of detente and the beginning of a decade of arms buildup to the political backlash that occurred because of Kissinger's indifference to human rights and obsessive secretiveness, but he also puts considerable blame on Democratic Senator Henry ("Scoop") Jackson and his aide Richard Perle, who later joined the Reagan Administration. In 1974 Jackson and Perle, who were opposed to detente, held the treaty granting the Soviet Union most-favored nation trading status hostage to Soviet agreement to allow expanded Jewish emigration. The Soviets retaliated by shutting off emigration and also, as Isaacson argues, by giving...