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...last May, reporters asked him if he felt any sympathy for Mulroney's problems with nationalism. He ducked the question with a long answer praising "national honor" but rejecting "negative" forms of "supernationalism." In fact, Gorbachev's troubles -- with at least three of the 15 Soviet republics bent on full independence and most others demanding sovereignty -- are far more severe than the Canadian Prime Minister...
...notion of a girl's right to choose, so parental consent or notification has been a comparatively easy sell: 33 states have passed such laws. By forcing the pro-choice movement to challenge this trend, the pro-life movement has been able to paint its opponents as antifamily, bent on weakening the bond between the generations, encouraging teenage promiscuity and fostering a libertine attitude toward sex that results in more than 400,000 teenage abortions a year...
...thinking 'Oh, no, not another story!' " The Soviet President enjoys discussing the theory of social change in the East and West, and has spent many happy (if hotly contentious) hours in just such debates with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Bush has little patience with theoretical discussions; his bent is toward solving immediate practical problems...
Though an avid reader--Robertson says she enjoys the unabridged version of Clarissa, Samuel Richardson's 1500-page novel-her friends and professors note that she is far from conventionally bookish. Rather, she combines an academic bent with social activism and a piercing, ironic...
...here to tell you that our back is bent under the weight of increasing tuition, fees and housing costs, and the final straw that breaks the camel's back is fast approaching," said Geoff Richelew, a member of the Student Government Association at Framing-ham State College...