Word: wade
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...This year, however, as the regenerative cycle of baseball's spring comes round again, there is less of a sense of a new beginning: not only has one of the game's most upstanding onetime icons, Steve Garvey, been revealed as a three-timing playboy, but its finest hitter, Wade Boggs, has been hung with the "A" of adultery...
None of this is to excuse Wade Boggs: it is only to say that this affair is a private affair, whose sorry consequences need have reached only the parties involved. Those who challenged his mistress's honor were not necessarily claiming that she was selling herself, only that she was selling her story. Yet we, in buying it, are surely accessories to the crime. For we are not, after all, accusing Boggs of anything extraordinary (every office has its adulterers); rather, we are crushed to find him ordinary. And it is not so much that the national pastime has been...
...special American Psychological Association panel on abortion, told legislators that after a review of the same data, the group had concluded that abortion inflicts no particular psychological damage on women. She pointed out that despite the millions of women who have undergone the procedure since the landmark Roe v. Wade case legalized abortion in 1973, there has been no accompanying rise in mental illness. "If severe reactions were common," she noted, "there would be an epidemic of women seeking treatment...
Last week's hearings came at an important time for both sides in the abortion fight. Next month the Supreme Court will hear the first serious challenge to Roe v. Wade since it became law. The original decision was based in part on the court's conviction that legal abortion is a safe option. Since then, pro-life forces have chipped away at the decision's medical premises. "These are extremely important conclusions," said Democratic Congressman Ted Weiss of New York, who organized the hearings. Conceded Koop: "It's very difficult to separate abortion the moral issue from abortion...
...understood what Wade Boggs said Monday, you must know something the rest of us don't. Boggs said that he broke the "moral law," while Margo broke the "regular law." Okay...