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...against Heath's parents, various police officers and county officials, and a local physician and physician's assistant, charging trespass, false arrest and assault, among other things. The case, which will be heard in federal court in Lincoln, Nebraska, as early as the end of the year, has suddenly thrust Blair, a city of 7,250 that is so placid that mayoral candidates have run unopposed for the past 12 years, deep into the rancorous national debate over who has a right to influence a pregnant woman's decision to get an abortion...
...tobacco companies, R.J. Reynolds and Philip Morris, had added extra nicotine to their cigarettes. The apologies were part of a settlement by ABC and the two companies that had sued the network for libel. ABC will also pay their legal expenses. But the network stands by the "principal thrust" of its report--that cigarette makers use reconstituted tobacco to control the level of nicotine in cigarettes...
...memoir is structured around the transformation of Cantwell from her small-town-Rhode-Island-reared self, to a University of Connecticut graduate thrust into the roar of a city that in 1953 welcomed her with open arms. Cantwell begins each section of the book with a new apartment, and a new segment of her New York existence...
Like rival clans thrust together at gunpoint, the two halves of a Philadelphia courtroom audience watched each other warily last week, begrudging good behavior. Then a convict with cascading dreadlocks entered, and the people to the right of the aisle erupted. "Free Mumia!" they screamed. "Mumia, we love you!" Women blew kisses. Men punched the air with salutes. To the left of the aisle, the other half watched, silently enraged that the defendant might get another chance...
...conservatives' thrust against PBS, therefore, seems to be faltering. On this Gingrich is too extreme for his own troops. The Speaker of the House, when he speaks on cultural affairs, is truly a wonder. Here he is, prating and preening like a parrot on a stump about the need to renew American civilization. This is the guy who hates the '60s but reincarnates them in his 40-acres-and-a-laptop Utopianism; who thinks kitsch "futurologists" like Alvin and Heidi Toffler are gurus and that a fund-raising cultist like Arianna Huffington is an intellectual. He filled his cable...