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...Boston College, three female students were attacked during a three-week span from mid-September to early October, according to The Globe report. The police recorded one sexual assault and two physical assaults on the campus...
When the pill does become available in America, abortion will not be as easy as going to the doctor and taking some of the tablets home -- at least not right away. In France, for instance, a woman is required to pay four visits over a three-week period to one of the country's 800 licensed clinics or hospitals. The first step is a gynecological exam. Doctors make sure the pregnancy is in its early stages, and a social worker or psychologist discusses with her the decision to abort. Then the woman is sent home for a weeklong "reflection" period...
...high-tech computer executive overheard her boss ask the training department why it was sending her to a conference when "she won't want to come back to us when the baby is born." When she did return to work after a three-week maternity leave, her boss asked, "Why aren't you going after that new job in that department? Has your ambition gone away now that you have two children...
...signing up 50,000 new voters and urging customers and passersby to go to the polls. In November she opened a new store in Harlem, all profits from which will be plowed back into the community. Next week she is launching her first assault on U.S. government policy: a three-week "have a heart" campaign exhorting customers to tell members of Congress to spend less money defending Europe and more on children, the elderly, the infirm, the homeless and the unemployed...
Freshmen on Garden Street. Baseball caps in Adams House. Girls who suddenly think my name is "Jim." A three-week abstinence from "Mr. Minnesota Head," induced by bureaucratic gridlock. The throes of wholesale sycophancy by which the model-building, history-raping pundits at the Kennedy School now hope to be elevated...