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...these days, the question "Shall we dance?" is both an invitation and a challenge. Hip-hop dance battles?much like the M.C. face-offs in the film 8 Mile?are becoming mainstream. The dance-battle scene has inspired a TV show (MTV's Wade Robson Project) and a film (You Got Served), and it even popped up at the Vatican (the Pope recently blessed an acrobatic, b-boy performance). "It's funny that it's being recognized on this level now, because it's been around, dominating in the urban centers for 30 years," says Crazy Legs, 38, a choreographer...
During his 24 years on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Harry A. Blackmun presided over thousands of cases, including Roe v. Wade, for which he wrote the majority opinion. The famously liberal judge also assembled a vast dossier of private papers--more than 530,000 letters and diaries--which, upon his retirement in 1994, he donated to the Library of Congress. Last week 1,585 boxes of his papers were unsealed...
...happy assignment?will be excoriated." HARRY BLACKMUN, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in a memo from his unsealed private papers describing the task of writing the court's opinion in Roe v. Wade, the 1972 abortion case...
...Democrats think the fire is called gay marriage. But many swing voters are also the suburbanites who abandoned the G.O.P. in the past when it got too wild-eyed about culture wars. "If they spend so much of their campaign talking about gay marriage," says Kerry press secretary David Wade, "it puts them back in 1992 at the Republican convention in Houston with Pat Buchanan...
...nationwide mandate of constitutional change the best way to go? Thirty-one years ago, in Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court imposed a single standard on abortion across a nation still groping toward diverse solutions on that divisive issue. We all know how well that worked. Now the images of gay and lesbian couples, ecstatic about getting married, are beaming across the nation. "They're putting the human face" on the issue, says Bruce Nelson of Lawrenceville, Ga., the father of a gay son, 23, and a lesbian daughter, 26. "It's not lawsuits with a bunch of lawyers arguing...