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Many liberals decry the idea that life begins at conception, and many conservatives champion it. Both sides, however, tend to agree that the question of when a human becomes a human eventually strays from the territory of rational argument into the realm of spirituality...
...sectarian bloodbath will get worse. Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite civil war has already claimed tens of thousands of lives and forced Sunnis and Shi'ites to abandon coexistence. This is tragic and certainly not what most Iraqi Shi'ites or Sunnis want. But once under way, civil wars tend to empower the most extreme elements. Civil wars do not end because the parties get tired of fighting. Rather, they end because of outside intervention or, more often, because one side wins. Partition will not stop the sectarian cleansing in mixed areas, but by giving Shi'ites and Sunnis their...
...system of general education at Harvard is curtailed by limited incentives. Professors tend to research, and students tend towards those activities which emphasize relevance and applicability. Put both in a room and every class is like the eternal recurrence of an awkward first date. I put before you Mahtani’s Law of General Education: “Any Core class, keeping the same professors, syllabus, and TF, would be better if formulated as a non-Core class...
...China's leaders hope that requiring an added review of death sentences by the Supreme People's Court - whose judges tend to be better educated than those in the provincial high courts that currently have the last word on executions - will reduce both the overall number of people put to death and the number of people killed for crimes they didn't commit...
Smith: We went in at dusk when the sun was just setting and the light was coming through. Watching them open the dome up I thought about how it was such an impressive sight. People don’t tend to think of telescopes or large mechanical structures as interesting or as beautiful, but seeing the how massive it was, standing nearby thousands of tons of steel, I wanted to capture how impressive it is to look up at that at twilight...