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...object to the title of the proposal," an act to protect the civil rights of women and children," she said. "It sounds like chivalry...

Author: By Gia Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Proposed Porno Law Targets Distributors | 4/7/1992 | See Source »

...hung Parliament, the Liberal Democrats, who call the political center home, would be the object of intense wooing. Ashdown, 51, is ready. A comparative unknown on the national scene, he has been doggedly stumping the country pitching a message: Labour is a spent force, the Tories are uncaring, and "the realities of the ballot box" will make both parties "more realistic." As Ashdown defines it, realism is a fairer share of power for the movement that is heir to the great Liberal reformers of the 19th and early 20th centuries -- William Gladstone, Herbert Asquith and David Lloyd George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Invitations to the Dance | 4/6/1992 | See Source »

...that this is not a matter of humanitarian issues versus practical ones. A sick child's need for an organ transplant is also a humanitarian issue. The case of Theresa Ann forces us to question whether a baby without the capacity for sentient experience can even be an object of humanitarian concern--whether, in fact, she can be called human...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Baby Talk | 4/3/1992 | See Source »

...attention to detail that modern art neglects is evident in David's "The Death of Socrates." Both Ingres and David--to name a few neo-classicists--present us with paintings that stagnate: the subject, object and therefore the motivation is frozen. This immobility contrasts the modern artist's attempt to break stagnation by re-vitalizing contours...

Author: By Aparajita Ramakrishnan, | Title: Exhibit of Modern Art Surveys the 20th Century's Aesthetic Innovators | 4/2/1992 | See Source »

...citizens, the constitutional bans on unreasonable search and seizure and cruel and unusual punishment should protect them from unjust violations of the body. But the courts have never reached a consensus about which punishments are cruel or unusual. And if the accused agrees to the penalty, who's to object...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sentences Inscribed on Flesh | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

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