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...This thorny scientific and moral quandary was the subject of his first nationally televised address, back in August 2001, when he imposed a ban on future federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. The issue also triggered his first veto, as he scuttled a bill last summer that would have eased that ban. And while Congress usually gets the message on presidential vetoes - no means no - a nearly identical embryonic stem cell bill that has passed the Senate sailed through the House Thursday, setting up yet another opportunity for the President to veto a measure that is increasingly popular both...
...battle lines were drawn at the Glasgow's Radisson SAS hotel in April when Rekhi was invited to Scotland to address the World Whiskies Conference. Delegates chatted over tea, coffee or 12-year-old Aberfeldy, discussing only one thing: India. Rekhi opened his speech by demanding that the E.U. redefine whisky to accommodate molasses-derived brands. "There should be no definitional barriers based on geography or substrates," he says. "Whisky cannot ring-fence itself." Yes it can--and should--according to rebuttals from the scotch side. "Rules are there to protect consumers," said Mike Keiller, CEO of Morrison Bowmore...
Lincoln expected that America would become a nation doubtful about its heroes and its history. In his astonishing address to the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Ill., on Jan. 27, 1838, on "the perpetuation of our political institutions," the 28-year-old Lincoln foresaw the inevitable rise in a modern democracy like ours of skepticism and worldliness. Indeed, he worried about the fate of free institutions in a maturing nation no longer shaped by a youthful, instinctive and (mostly) healthy patriotism...
...deans and Undergraduate Council (UC) leaders this spring. Today’s announcement, according to UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08 indicated the attentiveness of University leadership to student-driven advocacy. “The undergraduates and the Undergraduate Council identified a problem and sought to address it, and the governing boards took our concerns seriously,” Petersen said. To open a dialogue on calendar concerns, Bok himself circulated an e-mail to the University on May 2 soliciting opinions on the prospect of change. According to Bok’s statement today, the request...
...Fellowship (HRAACF). Their brief conversation about medical missions inspired Huang to email the freshman an article about Harvard medical professor Paul Farmer, the founder of international non-profit Partners in Health. Lee appreciated the gesture—but couldn’t quite connect the e-mail address to a face.That summer, she volunteered at an orphanage in China and Huang ended up on her update mass-e-mail list. Upon returning to Harvard, she e-mailed the group to set up a lunch to discuss their summers. “I think only two or three people...