Word: controller
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Better than a parent's control over abortion would be a world in which children too young to understand the power of sex did not engage in it, and one in which those unprepared to be pregnant did not become so. Since long before Juliet met Romeo, adults have been trying to convince adolescents barely able to decide what to wear in the morning that they are not mature enough to manage the complicated and overwhelming feelings that come with a sexual relationship. But for just as long, teenagers have been unpersuaded. Surveys show that at least half the young...
...about abortion. The Louisiana legislation conjures up a world where all children are born into families that will take care of them, whether their conception came about through love or violence. By contrast, the court decisions addressed a world that seems to have spun out of control, where pregnant children have to be forced to talk to their parents. Who would not wish for a Father Knows Best kind of life, where teenagers delayed becoming parents until they were no longer children, where youngsters in trouble could turn to families full of wise advice, where rape and incest were unknown...
...Christmastime, and McLane is meeting his wife at Dulles Airport in Washington. Before the plane lands, however, terrorists take control of the airport and threaten to kill a lot of people if the authorities don't help a shady Latin American general--who, of course, bears no resemblence to former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega--escape extradition and trial...
...could take your case to a higher court. For believe it or not, there is a body that, technically, has even more power than Harvard's president. The seven-member Harvard Corporation, of which Bok is an ex-officio member, is invested by its colonial charters with ultimate control over just about every aspect of running the University...
Although Gorbachev may eventually get his way, his admission that the tide is turning against him underscored how much control he has lost over party policy...