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...need look no further than the cover of Friday's New York Times, where a photo shows Rep. Asa Hutchinson pointing to a chart of the chronology of the Lewinsky affair labeled "Calender of Job Search Activity." Those who know that the correct spelling is "calendar" might be justified in wondering whether the impeachment of a president isn't important enough to warrant some quality control. Nor is the sloppiness confined to one side of the aisle: The cover of the President's defense brief, circulated by his team, carried his name on its own line -- there it was, William...
...retained a kind of adamant adolescence, fearful and aggressive at once. In bed he preferred kissing, snuggling and cuddling to getting down to the serious business of physical intimacy; or, in the indelible words of one of his girlfriends, Sheila Ryan, "he preferred pumping to actual sex." If the affair progressed, Ryan observed, "all of a sudden you graduated into Mother. You were expected to take care of him... He needed water, he needed pills, he needed Jell-O, he needed to be read to." But however long they lasted, these women never passed caretaker status. He could give...
Until just a few years ago, making a baby boy or a baby girl was pretty much a hit-or-miss affair. Not anymore. Parents who have access to the latest genetic testing techniques can now predetermine their baby's sex with great accuracy--as Monique and Scott Collins learned to their delight two years ago, when their long-wished-for daughter Jessica was born after genetic prescreening at a fertility clinic in Fairfax...
...novel Brave New World, Aldous Huxley envisioned future childbirth as a very orderly affair. At the Central London Hatchery and Conditioning Center, in accordance with orders from the Social Predestination Room, eggs were fertilized, bottled and put on a conveyor belt. Nine months later, the embryos--after "decanting"--were babies. Thanks to state-sponsored brainwashing, they would grow up delighted with their genetically assigned social roles--from clever, ambitious alphas to dim-witted epsilons...
Nonetheless my favorite character by far is Daisy. Karin Alexander '02 gives a moving rendition of Daisy's love affair with Berenger in which she, as the reluctant Eve, is wooed away from her unstable Adam by the call of the rhinoceroses. She manages, as Berenger remarks at one point, "in a few minutes to live 25 years of marriage." In the cramped apartment, as the last human woman, she is assaulted by Berenger's insistence that they resist and save the world by regenerating the human race just as she is assaulted by the roaring and stamping...