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Ethnic studies is a moderate and modest request. All students at Harvard are asking for is more courses in ethnic studies. More scholarship...
...recluse, and his whereabouts are known only to his aides and a handful of Sudanese officials. To arrange to see him, I first had to track down one of bin Laden's associates in London. Then, at a tearoom near Charing Cross Station, I made a request for a meeting. Several weeks later, bin Laden sent encouragement. I traveled to Khartoum, and waited for a few days at a hotel when a message came through the front desk, "The businessman will...
...expensive, and they must be built into a system at the beginning. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, an electronic audit trail keeps track of everyone who accesses the computerized records, and doctors have the option of tagging certain records as particularly sensitive--triggering an alert whenever a request is made to see that information. Even so, the hospital found that once the system was in place, it was impractical to declare any area of the electronic record completely off-limits...
What begins as an accepted practice sanctioned by law can easily turn into an obligation, as society comes to expect what it at first merely tolerated. The logical next step: the old and seriously ill will feel pressured to request euthanasia rather than burden their families with ever rising medical or nursing-home costs. Unscrupulous heirs could take advantage of a law legalizing euthanasia to accelerate their inheritance. How fitting if the generation that ushered in these changes became the first to succumb to them on a grand scale. Our fragile civilization is grounded on Judeo-Christian ethics, which uphold...
...shells--at least a dozen--fell on the unprotected civilians for 11 or 12 minutes while U.N. officials frantically tried to get the Israelis to stop. Even after the official request had been made and acknowledged by Israel, one to two minutes into the barrage, the guns kept firing. Says U.N. spokesman Timor Goksel: "We asked Israel several times to stop firing on the Fijian headquarters, telling them that we had civilian victims, but in vain...