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At the time of the Roe v. Wade decision, I was a college student — an anti-war, mother-earth, feminist, hippie college student. That particular January I was taking a semester off, living in the D.C. area and volunteering at the feminist “underground newspaper” Off Our Backs. As you’d guess, I was strongly in favor of legalizing abortion. The bumper sticker on my car read, “Don’t labor under a misconception; legalize abortion.” The first issue of Off Our Backs after the Roe decision included one of my movie reviews, and also an essay by another member of the collective criticizing the...

LANSING, Mich. (AP) A polling company that eight weeks ago reported Republican challenger Dick DeVos apparently leading Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm says a new poll shows the race now is about even. The poll also found incumbents leading or apparently leading in the races for U.S. Senate, attorney general and secretary of state. The election is Nov. 7. Des Moines, Iowa-based Selzer & Co. said that 46 percent of 803 likely Michigan voters interviewed Monday through Wednesday said they backed Granholm, while 44 percent backed DeVos and 10 percent were unsure or gave another response. The 2-percentage-point difference between Granholm...

...If a recent federal indictment that refers to Milberg Weiss is anything to go by, the trial bar has its Enron.... Sham "screenings" to round up asbestos plaintiffs, forum shopping for friendly juries, "coupon" settlements that enrich only lawyers and frivolous lawsuits have all become staples of today's tort system. Yet they have received almost no media, much less legal, scrutiny. ...The focus of the charges is retired Palm Springs lawyer Seymour Lazar, who seems to have had a second career as a plaintiff in Milberg Weiss lawsuits. From 1976 to 2004, Mr. Lazar and family members... served as named...