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...conditions at Greater Bay Golf Course in Somers Point, N.J. were anything but ideal. The course—which in the past has hosted Ladies Professional Golf Association events—set up even tougher than normal...
...Americans." A Whitehall official said Jackson's remarks were the tip of an iceberg, "very, very significant. There's a lot of concern about Fallujah. The professionals are worried. That's slowed down" consideration of the Pentagon's request. British officers know the U.S. zone is a tougher neighborhood than their turf in Basra. Despite their embarrassment when pictures of British soldiers apparently beating and urinating on an Iraqi captive surfaced last week, they are convinced their general approach of nourishing relationships with locals through constant contact and patient negotiation could help the Americans defuse violence - and obtain good intelligence...
...most recent, and possibly the most underhanded, anti-choice crusade has centered on the misnamed Unborn Victims of Violence Act (UVVA). The legislation was pitched as a way to provide tougher punishments for criminals, but its real purpose was to set a precedent for referring to fetuses as legal entities with legal rights. Congressional Democrats offered a separate piece of legislation that would have provided equally strong sentences for those who injure pregnant women, but pro-life members of Congress killed the legislation. They didn’t want a bill that would punish criminals unless it would also help...
Abigail Johnson couldn't have been handed the reins at a tougher time. It was May 2001, squarely amid the worst bear market since the 1930s, when she was promoted to president of Fidelity Management & Research and put in charge of investment operations. Who put her there? Her father Edward C. (Ned) Johnson III, whose own father founded the mutual-fund giant in 1946. So you could say she's had a comfort level most executives never enjoy. There's also the cushion of being worth nearly $10 billion as heir to the privately held Fidelity juggernaut. "She's cool...
Making scientific history is hard enough. It's tougher still when a lot of people wish you hadn't. That was the problem facing Woo Suk Hwang and Dr. Shin Yong Moon of Seoul National University when they announced in February that they had cloned human embryos for the first time. With that development, a medical and ethical door that had remained mostly closed was kicked wide open...