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...time address to announce that he had found a thin ridge of moral high ground on which to perch. The wrenching decision: whether to lend federal support to embryonic-stem-cell research, unleashing potential cures for horrific illnesses and life-shattering injuries, but at the cost of giving government sanction to the destruction of human embryos. Bush had searched both his soul and his 3-in.-thick briefing book. He had quizzed experts and ethicists and even the doctors in the White House medical unit. In that 11-min. speech, set not in the Oval Office but against an expanse...
Harvard will not sanction education programs in places like Jakarta due to U.S. State Department travel warnings. What a pity this is! Because of a self-harming, unnecessary, and contradictory policy, your education and the future of my country will be compromised. To speak the language of University President Lawrence H. Summers, this is an embargo on interaction with the ideas of other parts of the world, and as in most embargoes, everybody loses...
Most damningly, these travel restrictions are inconsistent and contradictory. For one thing, they emphasize political crime above overall crime. So while according to one set of statistics, you are 19 times more likely to get murdered in Moscow than in Jakarta, the college sanctions three study abroad programs in the Russian capital. But even if we measure only political violence, how can we sanction travel to Spain—which has suffered a massive deadly political attack in the last year—but not to Jakarta, which has experienced no acts of terrorism in the same time-frame? Harvard...
...might argue that state sanctioning and, indeed, funding of contracted armies is a dangerous precedent to set. But veritably, we have already set it. In Iraq, “security firms” and “military consultancies” are paid to fight rebels much in the same way the military does. Furthermore, such armies will continue to exist whether we sanction them or not—it makes sense to accept reality and use the mercenaries for good ends...
...slippery slope which leads us to divest from any company with a tie to the oil industry. Usually easy media targets will be singled out, which leads to the creation of a sideshow that distracts attention from the root of the problem—the national governments that sanction human rights abuses and corruption...