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...with graphic onstage torture and decapitation. Gorier than "Commando," racier than "Emmanuelle on Taboo Island," Fuente Ovejuna makes for old-fashioned family fun. Yet for all its mainstage status, its interesting script and its many strengths, the Loeb production retains on overwhelming air of student drama of the cardboard shield and plastic sword school...
...homosexuality do not deserve rational refutation, they also do not require a response by the University. The fact that Mansfield spewed his hateful bile in a courtroom underscores the depth of his intolerance, and indicates his willingness to prostitute his academic integrity by using his scholarly reputation as a shield for unsupported claims. But whatever weight Mansfield's affiliation with Harvard may contribute to his reputation, it is wrong to equate that reputation with a sanction by the University for his hatred...
SEPT. 22: In today's intelligence brief, we received some real upsetting news. Tonight we are supposed to get hit by 150 gunmen. The men are said to have women and children holding hands walking in front of the gunmen as they shoot -- sort of a human shield. Don't get me wrong, but I'm scared, real damn scared...
INSURERS. Big insurance companies that would be able to set up the health- care networks so central to Clinton's plan are, not surprisingly, for it. But the nonprofit Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association last week came out in favor not of the Clinton plan but of the much less mandatory alternative outlined by Rhode Island Republican John Chafee, Dole and 20 other G.O.P. Senators. That plan would require employers to offer insurance to workers but not necessarily to pay for it. It would force consumers to buy insurance, as automobile drivers must, but give them tax deductions...
...center of the controversy, then, is a double standard. With Roe as their shield, the better-off do as they please. For the poor, though, and for those without health insurance, choice is meaningless without the means to choose. Only 13 states voluntarily fund abortions for those who can't afford them; the poor elsewhere are looking to Clinton to save them from the back alley. But Clinton's options are limited by the Hyde Amendment, the 16-year- old constraint on the use of federal funds to finance abortions authored by Illinois Representative Henry Hyde. The law, which initially...