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...essay disparaging the U.N., Charles Krauthammer argued that violence and greed are "the natural way of nations" [Oct. 23]. That is the lazy man's excuse for resisting change and progress. As a means to create security and stability, war has failed over the millenniums. Our experiment in international collaboration, nonviolent conflict resolution and mutually beneficial partnerships--still in its infancy--will continue to suffer missteps and setbacks, not the least of which include the present U.S. Administration's uninformed and shortsighted policies. My hope for the future of civilization lies in the goals, purposes and accomplishments...
Stranger Than Fiction has a surer aim at getting through the brain to the heart. Zack Helm's script imagines a decent, solitary fellow named Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), then springs the notion that he may well be a fiction--a character in a work in progress by reclusive novelist Karen (Kay) Eiffel (Emma Thompson). And when Kay figures out how to kill off the character, Harold will...
There's no cure yet for mitochondrial disease, nor even a surefire treatment. Sufferers are usually given vitamin and nutritional supplements, which can help slow the progress of the illness, but they aren't always effective. "If you'd asked me a year ago," says Shoffner, "I would have said that's the only option." Since then, however, some promising drugs have been developed, and will soon go into clinical trials. And a new company called Edison Pharmaceuticals, of San Jose, Calif., was founded last year for the sole purpose of coming up with drugs for mitochondrial disease...
...fetus, as well as the campaign’s demand for greater resources to assist young mothers. Pro-choice activists who summarily condemn their opponents as anti-women evince no more honesty or nuance than anti-abortion activists who condemn their opponents as anti-baby. There can be no progress on this issue until Harvard’s pro-choice spokespersons are more interested in confronting the sincere moral concerns of the anti-abortion movement than in constructing circuitous justifications for silencing it. NATHANIEL A. SMITH ’06-’07 November...
...Opponents Say: The state's Affirmative Action laws help create a level playing field by requiring that doors be open to women and minorities. To ban such programs would undo decades of civil rights progress...