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...last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences created yet more public concern about biological tinkering, not to mention a fresh wave of stale chicken jokes. (Why did the mad scientist kick the chickens out of his lab? Because they were using fowl language.) Raising the specter of brain transplants in humans, radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh blustered, "This is more dangerous than cloning...
...civil and criminal. The verdict by a mainly white jury that Simpson is liable for the battering of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and the murder of her friend Ron Goldman, and the prior decision by a mostly black jury, which absolved him of murder, have raised the specter of racism. The case spells the eventual doom of the principles proclaimed by America's founders and seems to foreshadow a coming social, political and economic revolution. SAMUEL J. GORDEN Tempe, Arizona...
...started, as I remember it, when Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 raised the specter of ROTC, claiming that some of the candidates present at the BGLTSA meeting were supportive of the campus military organization that excludes gay people. Specifically, she charged that several of the candidates present were guilty of voting "no" on a council resolution last year that would have asked the administration to bar ROTC graduation services from Harvard Yard...
...government may be facing two hydras. The four men executed in the first bombing were members of the Sunni Muslim majority of the country. The 40 in custody for the Dhahran attack belong to the kingdom's Shi'ite minority. And the Shi'ite suspects bring with them the specter of a greater menace--Iran, the center of Shi'ism that lies about 160 miles across the gulf. Indeed, the Saudis believe Tehran is the true perpetrator of the Dhahran incident. They have turned over evidence to Washington, which is now considering the investigation's credibility and weighing the cost...
...specter of economic retaliation--and the fact that Texaco executives were caught red-handed using racially insulting language as they discussed the destruction of evidence--that motivated Texaco chairman Peter I. Bijur to perform the most spectacular flip-flop since Kerri Strug's Olympic showstopper. In a textbook feat of corporate damage control, he agreed last week to spend $176 million to end the lawsuit filed by black employees whom Texaco has been stonewalling for years. The pact contains the most lucrative settlement ever of a U.S. discrimination case. If wholeheartedly implemented, it could transform Texaco from a bastion...