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...played a thousand times better than at any other time this season," junior Peter Kaiser said, "and we played one of our best games ever against Brown...
...legislature to regulate abortion in other ways. For example, the legislature could eliminate Medicaid funding for abortions. As of the Hyde Amendment of 1977, there is no federal funding for Medicaid abortions except in the case of threat of death to the pregnant woman. Massachusetts currently pays for several thousand Medicaid abortions each year, in the same way that it supports thousands more welfare births. There is currently a law on the state books which mandates Medicaid funding of abortions as long as child birth funds are provided. Only by presenting poor women with financially feasible options can the government...
Anti-choice forces present this referendum as a tax issue. They ask "Do you want your tax dollars spent on abortion?" This implies that taxpayers will save money by voting for the referendum. Nothing could be more untrue. The cost of several thousand abortions is nothing compared to the cost of supporting one child on welfare for 18 years, especially if that child has any health problems...
...Thousand Nine Hundred and Eighty-Six 9 o'clock p.m. until 2 o'clock...
Last week's long-awaited "galaxy premiere" of Captain EO was kicked off with typical Disney glitz. Skyrockets and a thousand Mylar balloons crowded the air. A dozen chorus boys and girls in spandex and spangles boogied decorously. Mickey and Minnie Mouse arrived in matching silver-and-rainbow Captain EO garb. The film's opening will also be celebrated in a one-hour NBC special this Saturday. All the hoopla underscored the magnitude of the gamble by Disney and Eastman Kodak, which split the movie's costs. At $20 million or so for the film and its laser effects, Captain...