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During the Cold War, Soviet apparatchiks commonly referred to those Western journalists who naively accepted the Kremlin’s misinformation as “useful idiots.” The phrase could easily be used to characterize people such as Stone, who willfully enable a totalitarian government to subjugate its people and escape even the mildest of rebukes from the international community. Perhaps someday when Castro is gone and Cuba’s Communist archives are made available to the public, his sympathizers in the West will at last recognize the abject folly of their delusion. For the time...
...here the plot thickens. Zambia’s export economy is built around exports of grain to the European Union (E.U.), that region of skeptics that is deeply suspicious of G.M. foods. Quite apart from any potential health and environmental risks, forcing Zambia to accept genetically modified corn would cause its export economy to collapse: the E.U. would either refuse the corn altogether, or accept it, label it, and have consumers leave it on the shelf. And it’s not as if the U.S. was shipping Zambia the bargain-basement corn that nobody wanted—G.M. corn...
Dini’s punitive sin? As reported in the New York Times, he refuses to write letters of recommendation to medical or graduate schools for students who do not accept the theory of evolution. When a premedical student of Dr. Dini’s got wind of this, he cried foul because he felt that to accept the theory of evolution would be “to deny [his] faith as a Christian...
...these are dog days for hotelkeepers, and as lodgings compete with one another for the family business, a growing number are making an effort to be more dog friendly. The American Hotel and Motel Association estimates that more than 20,000 U.S. lodgings now accept pets--some of them in great style...
...Crimson’s 22-point second half was partly a result of its unwillingness to accept charity. Harvard went to the free-throw line only five times in the entire game—making just two—while Yale was a robust 15-of-19 from the stripe...