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...Democratic strategy of couching abortion in other rights issues may be put to the test as early as next week when the Supreme Court will hear the case of Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood, in which a New Hampshire law requiring doctors to notify a parent at least 48 hours before performing an abortion for a teenager is being challenged by a pro-choice group. It will put front and center the basic issue of whether Roe protects the health and safety of the mother. It will also highlight the pivotal role in abortion cases of swing voter Sandra...
Gaghan wrote the script for Traffic, whose three complex story lines director Steven Soderbergh helpfully tinted in different colors. Nothing like that in Syriana. It zigzags from the Middle East to Europe to the U.S. as if to test both your patience and your eye-brain coordination. Yet the film does see the world in three colors: black, for the oil that brings out man's cunning and killer instinct; gray, for the shades of honor and self-interest by which the main players try to define themselves; and red, for the blood spilled in Allah...
...Number of times a player must test positive for steroids to be banned from the sport...
...kids can't snack until they have done their homework and Brown has reviewed it. They never leave the house in unironed clothes. Her daughters share the responsibilities: Vivian gets her cousins ready for school, and Angeline helps look after them in the afternoon. Of course, the kids often test Angeline's authority, but Brown will be happy if that's the only way her daughter's toughness is tried. In any case, she says she is never taking her babies back to cruel New Orleans...
...concerted effort to attract disadvantaged students, Fitzsimmons remains sympathetic to the hurdles faced by applicants who hail from wealth. “We’re beating the life out of students with privilege,” he told students at the April forum, describing the regimen of test prep, Advanced Placement courses, and parental pressure in college-crazed communities where university acceptance can be more status symbol than golden opportunity...