Word: pro
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...editors then proceed to equate opposition to abortion with the beliefs of Christian Scientists and Jehovah's Witnesses concerning the morality of receiving medical care. This argument obscures the fact that for pro-lifers, abortion is not merely a private sin (as, say, eating meat on Fridays in Lent is for Catholics) but a public crime: the deliberate taking of human life. And opposition to abortion is not a peculiar tenet of a single Denomination--rather, it is common to nearly all orthodox western religions, ranging from Missouri Synod Lutheranism to Shi'ite and Sunni Islam, and from Russian Orthodoxy...
...cavalierly dismissing abortion as just another "medical procedure"--an unscientific and illogical canard of the pro-choice movement for decades--and capping their intolerant argument with a pat, predictable appeal to "diversity," the Crimson does a grave disservice both to intellectual rigor and to the journalistic standards that it claims to uphold...
...Pro Football Weekly listed as one of Kacyvenski's negatives--as it did for the last Harvard draftee, offensive lineman Matt Birk, a sixth-round pick two years ago--that Kacyvenski "has excellent off-the-field options." Yet he was able to shake the Ivy League stereotypes and now will be competing at the highest level of football...
...political soul to the devil--er, Pat Robertson--in exchange for a comeback victory in South Carolina. It seems to me that the easiest way for him to show people the compassionate part of his "compassionate conservatism" exists, is to choose the right running mate. Insisting on a pro-life running mate just won't work. One name no one seems to raise anymore because of her recent tough re-election battle is New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman. She is everything the Republican party ought to be highlighting--an intelligent social moderate with a proven record. A Bush-Whitman...
Last, with the 2000 NFL draft happening over the weekend, as many as three members of the 1999 Harvard Crimson squad may have found themselves on pro rosters. For linebackers Isaiah J. Kacyvenski '00 and Michael E. Sands '00, as well as tight end Christopher J. Eitzmann '00, this is a terrific way to cap off their college careers. Congratulations and best wishes to them--and now it's time buckle down for the last few weeks of school...