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...problems with the earlier committee was that it was too big and there were too many voices in the room before anything could get in concrete,” Menand said. “Everything was being talked to death.” Menand said that this committee will aim to “not get too entangled with outside discussion until we’re ready to tell people what we think.” Professor of Philosophy Alison Simmons, the other co-chair, wrote in an e-mail to The Crimson that the committee is currently...
...flowed from the doors and windows and swarmed along the rooftops and into the street, and the AK-47s bucked in their hands as they fired on full-automatic at the slow-moving trucks. The Iraqis, most of them in loose-fitting, soiled civilian clothes, did not seem to aim at all, but to just shoot and scream and shoot. They sprayed bullets at the convoy and waited for the Americans to drive into their own death...
Viewed through that lens, would Kim really risk war--and the certain end of a dynastic regime begun by his father--in response to a limited air strike aimed at his missile capability? The answer may well be no, but it's also clear that the Bush Administration thinks a pre-emptive strike is still too risky. The North might not currently be able to retaliate against the U.S., but it has huge artillery batteries stationed just across the 38th parallel ready to take aim at Seoul, one of the world's most densely populated cities. Even if Seoul...
Papal trips have their standard menu of metaphors and stated objectives: peace mission, pilgrimage, journey of reconciliation, personal homecoming. The official aim of Pope Benedict XVI?s lightning-quick visit to Spain was to celebrate the Christian family, helping to close the Catholic World Meeting of Families in Valencia this weekend. Intead, the Pope's much-anticipated handshake and photo op Saturday evening with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero looked more like a heavyweight boxing stare-down of ideas over the direction of Western civilization and the meaning of morality in the modern world...
...really acted productively and liberatingly in this way, and lastingly so, is a consolation for me that nothing can destroy. With this thought I will know how to bear the experiences of my children, sad though they may be; if only the cursed drive to beget children didn't aim to extend the misery into infinity! This drive, in concert with the medical arts to keep alive something that is not viable beyond the years of fertility is undermining civilized humanity. So it would be urgently necessary that physicians conducted a kind of inquisition for us with the right...