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...gemstones, heroin and amphetamines. A boxer calling himself Thai may have been born in a Burmese refugee camp and speak the language of the Karen guerrillas or the Mon tribesmen over the frontier. Crowds flock from Burma for the fights, some crossing legally at the checkpoint but most just wade across the parched Moei river. In this town of mixed allegiances and sliding identities, boxing alone provides a little certainty?without exception, every match is Thailand vs. Burma...
...office on the first floor of University Hall, Associate Dean of Harvard College, Georgene B. Herschbach and her staff wade through millions of dollars of financial requests from divisions within Harvard College. They face decisions like whether to expand staffing at the Office of Career Services or to replace six-year-old computers used by assistants to the House Masters...
Abortion teaching had been slipping into oblivion until MSFC began to reverse the trend. Though the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision made abortion legal, prompting some med schools to include the procedure in course work, the ruling also fueled an active antiabortion movement that sought to stigmatize providers. (Last week the House passed a bill making it a federal crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a woman, a measure seen by someas the first step toward new limits on the procedure.) Wanting to avoid controversy and often at the behest of conservative legislatures or donors, many...
...hide ourselves from the world. The story is one of a boyhood friendship fractured by competition over a beautiful woman (ahhh...beautiful women). Reunited years later, the two men find themselves clinging to one another for survival even as try to destroy each other. All of the characters must wade through pain, suffering and isolation to find something that could pass for happiness...
...becoming impossible to find the money to have one, or a doctor willing to provide them, or a clinic that's not under the threat of violence," says Roth. In other words: Access is everything. And pro-choice activists are poised for a fight. Because although Roe v. Wade ostensibly guarantees the right to a legal abortion, the letter of the law hardly matters if states are permitted to chip away at the practical structures that support a woman's right to choose...