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Though no one has reliable figures, experts estimate that partial-birth abortion accounts for perhaps 600 of the 1.5 million abortions performed in the U.S. each year. Its rarity, however, takes nothing away from its horror, and all along, the symbolic importance of the issue has driven both sides of the debate. The ban that passed earlier this year was the first attempt by Congress to outlaw a specific abortion procedure in the 23 years since the Supreme Court upheld abortion rights in Roe v. Wade...
Zamora brandished a barbell weight and smashed it with a sickening thud on the younger girl's head, according to police. To the horror of her attackers, Jones crawled out through the car window. But the blow had fractured her skull and lacerated her brain. She staggered only a little way to a barbed-wire gate before collapsing. "I knew," Graham told police, "I couldn't leave the key witness to our crime alive." Armed with a Russian-made Makarov pistol, he fired twice. One bullet caught her right between the eyes. The entire episode was over in about...
...same in the theater of politics. If we accidentally glimpse animal masculinity there--the Tasmanian devil of male desire--it is like stumbling upon secret squalor, the hand under the table, the old Packwood charm. A public exposure of the full horror of male desire sometimes leads to public relations catastrophes. On the other hand, Bill Clinton has shown that such storms can be weathered without noticeable damage...
...reputation is such that the publishers of the new volumes were at first reluctant to resuscitate it. "There will be some people who think this is capitalizing on something evil," says Steven Herb, head of the Education Library at Pennsylvania State University. But the authors say people's initial horror is soon overcome. "At first people's mouths drop open," says Lester. "They say, 'Have you lost your mind?' But after they read the new version, they love it." Perhaps even Sambo deserves a second chance...
Desperation and The Regulators will bring a return to sturdier, more surefire thrills: heaps and heaps of gore (the words rill and freshet crop up in relation to hemorrhaging), ambiguous but decidedly malevolent supernatural powers, and cataclysmic battles between good and ultimate evil. (Is there any other kind in horror novels?) Both books feature a broken-down writer whose output has dwindled from his glory days--one imagines that might be a scary thought for King. But here's an even scarier idea for a novel: What about a writer who couldn't stop writing--ever...