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Today is National Abortion Providers Day, honoring those who routinely place themselves in the line of fire to make sure that women's constitutional right to choose remains uninfringed. Roe v. Wade is not an static law; its survival rests on the shoulders of some of the most courageous individuals in our country...
Spending an early Saturday morning in front of a Planned Parenthood clinic is a profound way to see how abortion rights in this country have deteriorated since the passage of Roe v. Wade. On the day Planned Parenthood performs abortions, crews of anti-abortion protesters threaten, abuse and physically block those trying to enter the clinic. This is the situation that awaits women lucky enough to be in a state with abortion providers...
Best ActorNick Nolte, Affliction: Nolte's performancein Affliction is dark. Really dark. So incrediblydark, in fact, that his tortured Wade Whitehousedoes not at first appear to be complex enough tobe an Oscar-worthy performance. A few hours afterviewing the movie, though, it starts to sink in.His unobtrusive body language, for one. Withoutspeaking line of dialogue, Nolte communicates tothe audience a world of repressed pain and theveneer of machismo that inadequately stretches tocover it. Though the performance is incrediblygood, the film's obscurity and this year's stiffcompetition may keep the statuette out of Nolte'shands...
...just one black, corrections officer Joe Collins, the sole black, was elected foreman. Jasper's black community hoped for the best but braced for the worst. "Even if you know something is right and that you should get a certain verdict, sometimes you don't get it," says Unav Wade, owner of a beauty salon on the courthouse square. "If it's between races, most likely the white person wins...
...council meeting in August, Nancy Nicholson, a member who is white, recalls, "You wouldn't have believed how bad it was. The blacks were so angry, and the whites didn't know what to do. But we've come a long way since then." "It's changed people," says Wade. "There is still subtle racism here. When a white person and a black person enter a store at the same time, usually the white person is served first. That sort of stuff goes on." But, she says, "Jasper is going to be much better because of what happened...