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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...puzzled one tourist in a bright red ski jacket aloud to his companion, munching on a hunk of Italian sausage. Indeed, very few observers care about who wins or who loses. Very few seem to know that the regatta is a series of races. Some know even less. A woman wearing a Lesley College sweatshirt and sunglasses spoke distractedly, pointing first downstream, then upstream, then across the river, "So what's the deal? The races are going this way?" And others still less--"Are we near Harvard Square...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: The Head of the Charles | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...disparity. "I trust the women of Virginia," Wilder taunted his opponent in a televised debate last week. "That's the difference between you and I." Coleman is trying the hang-tough route, sticking to his staunch opposition to abortion in all cases except where the life of the woman is in danger. But he has promised that if he wins the election he will not propose legislation to outlaw the termination of pregnancies that result from rape or incest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Pair of Electoral Tests | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

Moviegoers at the new hit Sea of Love check out Helen and think, What a woman. Got to be a killer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Barkin Up the Right Tree | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...bill, which has assumed symbolic importance in the larger political war over the abortion issue, would ease an eight-year-old restriction on circumstances in which Medicaid will pay for a poor woman's abortion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senate Votes to Ease Abortion Restrictions | 10/20/1989 | See Source »

Pardon me, but a lot of high school sweethearts would take exception. "Statutory rape" is a label applied to any sexual intercourse--consensual or not--with a woman under 18. Any man who had a sexually active relationship at this age is a statutory rapist. (Yes, that includes even magical moonlit nights after the junior prom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: When 'Rape' Isn't Rape | 10/19/1989 | See Source »

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