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...times and safest for late-term abortions. As upheld, the law only provides an exception when the woman’s life is at risk, denying doctors the broad discretion they must have to act in the best interest of their patients. The Supreme Court should recognize that physicians swear an oath to do exactly that, no matter the legal cost...
...Nick, with the gimlet stare and the thin taut lips, is at first flummoxed by this amiable alien element: where the police station has a "swear box" (saying "nob" gets you a 10p fine), where the pub owner vaguely enumerates the wine selections as "red and... white," and where a man who's had his head cut off is described as "decaffeinated." Sanford might be the Shire, and the residents human Hobbits, to an alpha-male Aragorn like Nick...
...teamed up with Iraqi Sunni insurgents. But tensions between the two camps escalated in the fall, when al-Qaeda created a new jihadi supergroup called the Islamic State of Iraq to unite the disparate cells fighting the U.S. and Shi'ite militias. Al-Qaeda demanded that all insurgent groups swear loyalty to the new organization, but some of the most active Iraqi nationalist networks, like the Islamic Army, refused. According to the Islamic Army's letter, al-Qaeda "went too far" and retaliated "by killing 30 mujahedin brothers...
...tacked on revenue-sharing deals. "We believed it made good sense to use money that would otherwise go into Citibank's pockets to give more financial aid to N.Y.U. students," New York University spokesman John Beckman said in a statement. His school and five others agreed this month to swear off revenue sharing and repay students nearly $3.3 million...
...Easter egg and sweet as a stolen kiss. It's an indulgence, a passion, then an obsession. In other words, it's the ultimate French confection. Paris is divided into two camps: those who hold that the best mini macarons come from Ladurée, and those that swear by Pierre Hermé. This is a somewhat academic debate, since Hermé worked at Ladurée before opening his own shops in Paris and Tokyo...