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...name. "How's Kyle?" the man would inquire. "Has he had any accidents?" Then came the handwritten death threat in his mailbox. Boyd moved his family out of town for a while, and on Christmas Eve his clinic was torched. Boyd is back in business today, but with a sharper sense of the odds against him. "You have a President of the United States who says abortion should be illegal," he says. "You have religious leaders saying that doctors who perform this service should go to hell. You have antiabortion groups that harass medical staff. What professionals would continue...
...Even sharper accusations are being leveled by M. Gene Wheaton, the private investigator appointed by the Families for Truth about Gander, Inc. The organization was founded in 1989 by Dr. J.D. Phillips and his wife Zona of St. Petersburg, Florida. As father and stepmother of one of the victims, they charged the U.S. with "failing to conduct a full inquest, or even revealing the facts it does possess...
...burgeoning field of corporate charity puts the notion of government "compulsion" vs. private "voluntarism" in even sharper perspective. The actual donors are the shareholders, whose money is volunteered by the corporation's executives. The shareholders can vote the executives out if they're being overgenerous -- just as the citizens can vote the politicians out. Shareholders can also sell their stock, which citizens cannot. But in practical terms, corporate charity is under less democratic control than government social welfare. And corporations, unlike the government, then spend vast sums of money bragging in advertisements about how generous they are. Stockholders...
...offense, which consists of three freshman starters (Gaffney, Rice and attacker Dan Nicklas) has gelled and is looking much sharper in practice than it did last week...
...Obviously we've got to get a little sharper. Basically we lost some integral parts of our power play [to injuries]," Tommasoni said. "We just never had a chance to recover. That's certainly something we've been concentrating on and something we hope we'll improve on this weekend...