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...life advocates have named “partial-birth” abortions. Last year, a similar bill was passed in the Senate and President George W. Bush has publicly declared he would sign it into law—marking the first time Congress will restrict abortion since Roe v. Wade...
...those of us who cannot recall what life was like before Roe v. Wade, “choice” for women too often meant the “choice” between self-mutilation with a coat hanger, a dark alley “butcher” or a long trip to one of the few sympathetic physicians that secretly provided medically safe abortions. While today women could not imagine a world without contraception and abortion as viable options, this was the world women faced before...
With the help of big-name endorsements from NBA superstar LeBron James and celebrity choreographer Wade Robson, Alan Hall ’89 managed to steal the show at the MTV Video Music Awards—not with a song, but with a commercial for Juice Batteries...
...boxing ring, five seconds can be an eternity, as Alex "the Slugger" Wade learned when Vince "Dynamite" Dickson landed a punch square in his face at the beginning of the second round. Blood trickled from Wade's mouth, and he swayed from side to side. The crowd of 800 at London's York Hall - the spiritual home of British boxing - held its breath. But Wade returned with a flurry of punches, and finished with his pride intact. Despite his tough-guy nickname, Wade, a 37-year-old father of two, is not a professional boxer - he's a lawyer...
...places like York Hall, which attract serious fight fans, and plush London hotels, which attract the dinner-jacket crowd and give a portion of the proceeds to charity. To join, men - there are still only a handful of women - undergo a physical ("like something out of the army," says Wade) and pay €140, which doesn't include any of the training costs (from €14 per session, depending on where). The first lesson: taking a punch. More used to rhetorical jabs than any other kind, the men "screw up their faces or turn away," says boxing trainer Umar Taitt...