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...Supreme Court declared procreation a basic human right in 1942. It reaffirmed it in 1978 by overturning a Wisconsin law forbidding child-support-delinquent citizens to marry if they could not show that their children could be kept off welfare. Similarly, activists like the A.C.L.U.'s Catherine Weiss say Oakley's sentence "runs dangerously close to having a financial test for parenthood." Such fears are not utterly unfounded. Between 1907 and 1964, tens of thousands of people deemed "genetically inferior"--including many poor people, minorities and petty criminals--were sterilized by law in some 30 states. Justice Bradley wrote that...
Sleater-Kinney, composed of Tucker, 28, guitarist-singer Carrie Brownstein, 26, and drummer-singer Janet Weiss, 35, is a punk band because, among other reasons, a sense of exclusion and marginalization is part of what drives its music. That sense is a source of the vehemence in the trio's sound, which--on albums released on the small Pacific Northwest labels Chainsaw and Kill Rock Stars--has become at once bigger and more agile, harsher and more unpredictable, since the band formed in 1994 in Olympia, Wash. The world is organized so as not to have to listen to songs...
...radio, a Sleater-Kinney song throws everything around it off balance, the way a Smokey Robinson composition like The Love I Saw in You Was Just a Mirage can make whatever might play before or after it seem stupid. "It can be thrilling and scary at the same time," Weiss says of hearing the band's music on the radio, which, on commercial stations, almost never happens. "To be involved in that--it's almost as if it's not real...
...what the band was created to pursue: "2001 will be a space odyssey for us, and we won't...be here," Brownstein said from the stage at Sleater-Kinney's most recent show, last November in San Francisco. In the midst of their brief hiatus, Brownstein, Tucker and Weiss remain off the radio but on the mind of the pop world, and plotting their return...
...These seniors definitely left their mark on the program, bringing the team its first Ivy and EIWA titles," said Coach Weiss. "They put the team's goals ahead of their own, and inspired us all with their passion and dedication...