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...Invincibility" [Sept. 4] illustrated the difficulty of achieving peace in the Middle East. Once again a leader has failed the toughness test, and his people are ready to make him pay a political price. But Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert cannot destroy Hizballah any more than President George W. Bush can destroy all terrorists. Here in the U.S. we criticize the President for leading us into a quagmire in Iraq, but if he had not responded to the 9/11 attacks as strongly as he did, perhaps we would have reacted like Israel's army reservists did and demanded that...
...director of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Dr. Robert Brackett, recognizes the riskiness of such processing in the field, and sent a warning letter to the California growers that had provided the contaminated lettuce in last year's outbreak, noting that "claims that 'we cannot take action until we know the cause' are unacceptable...
...conclude from this fact that men are morally justified in exploiting and abandoning women! Similarly, Darwinism might help us to understand why some women seek out abortions, but it does not automatically follow that those abortion are good moral choices. Morality can be informed by science, but it cannot be reduced to science. Pro-lifers point to the authority of science to show that the entire genetic basis of a new human life is present from the moment of conception. Thoughtful commentators on both sides of the issue raise other scientific facts of embryological development to affirm or deny...
...used to cover its agenda in pushing legislation on the treatment and judicial fate of terrorism suspects, which effectively rolls back key provisions of the Geneva Conventions. The President repeatedly insisted that the legislation is needed so that American officials interrogating suspected terrorists know what they can and cannot do, and, more darkly, that they know they won't be prosecuted for what they do. Of course, the competing measure sent forward by the Armed Services Committee Thursday night is also clear - maybe "don't torture" is a little too clear for the Administration's liking...
...Undergraduate Studies) is the face of Social Studies. If you’re lucky, you’ll come across Professors Michael Hiscox, Steven Levitsky, and Peter Gordon, who’ll all single-handedly make Social Studies worth your time and sweat. Did we mention that Social Studies cannot have its own tenured faculty since it is not a department but a committee? If you have any hopes that Social Studies will ever become a real department, let them go now.But if you’ve decided that Social Studies is the way to go, you?...