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...means of eliminating the sexual orientation. Pregnant women currently test their fetuses for diseases like Down Syndrome and abort these children if they are so inclined; they might not hesitate to do the same to avoid a gay child. Even more likely, the scientific explanation will further imprison homosexuals in the semantic grouping so feared by philosopher Michel Foucault in his groundbreaking trilogy, The History of Sexuality. Foucault deftly traces the interpretations of sexuality since ancient Greece and argues that the modern world’s vague conception of homosexuality was constructed through dialogue into an accepted...
...abuse of non-human primates. PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk described the University’s laboratories as “an animal Abu Ghraib” in a press release. “With Harvard, one of the big points for us is that they imprison about 2000 primates at the New England National Primate Research Center,” PETA Research Associate Matthew Mongiello said. “They claim that their primate center is used for AIDS research et cetera but their main purpose is turning monkeys into cocaine and heroin addicts.”According...
Condoleezza Rice's visit to Europe this week was overshadowed by criticism of the CIA's alleged use of clandestine flights and bases in Europe to transport and imprison terror suspects. But there was one welcome respite: When the Secretary of State touched down in the small former communist state of Romania to announce that the U.S. would be opening four new military bases there, she was greeted with open arms. "The acceptance by the Romanian people of the American military presence is the most precious thing to have happened in the relations between our two states," the pugnacious Prime...
...Rice's stop in Romania, however, failed to dispel criticism from other quarters. She is under fire over a series of reports that the CIA established clandestine bases on European soil to imprison suspected terrorists for questioning, and transported those detainees through European airports. Rice's declaration-in what some see as a departure for U.S. policy-that U.S. treaty obligations prohibiting cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment extended to U.S. personnel "wherever they are" helped quiet some of those concerns. So, too, did her allowance, unusual for a Bush Administration member, that the U.S. may have made mistakes...
...There should be no short cuts in the administration of justice. It is dangerous and difficult work to infiltrate the Mafia, or a Triad, but dedicated and clever officers still try. Should police who cannot gather enough evidence to secure a conviction be able to imprison people without charge? It does not take much knowledge of human nature - nor does it impugn the integrity of the police - to guess whether their evidence-gathering efforts will thereafter be intensified or relaxed. And relaxation of vigilance may prove a deeper danger...