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Some Senators wondered aloud what Packwood was hiding from them. The committee wants to see not just the portions dealing with the alleged sexual misconduct, but all of it, everything from what he did on January 23, 1982 to what he really thought of one of his summer interns. Many supporters of the resolution contend that a public figure loses his right to privacy when entering public office. The committee itself bases its claims on the fact that Packwood already used parts of his diaries to defend himself earlier, thereby relinquishing any claims to privacy...
Sensing a shift in the regulatory wind, many reproductive scientists wished aloud that the cloning issue had never been raised -- or at least not in this way. "((Hall and Stillman)) haven't done science or medicine any favors," said Dr. Marilyn Monk, a researcher at London's Institute of Child Health. Dr. Leeanda Wilton, director of embryology at Australia's Monash IVF Center, where much of the in-vitro fertilization technology was developed, said there were hundreds of scientists who could have split an embryo in half, just the way Hall and Stillman did. "They haven't done so because...
Also, when I write a poem, my primary model is the poem spoken aloud. That does not mean that I pay less attention to it on the page; paradoxically, it means that I spend a tremendous amount of attention to it on the page. Poetry is the most intense and ultimately is for oral presentation. The page is a key to that. The rhythm of the book, the way you move from one paragraph to another, they are not so microform. They're more macro. When I read prose aloud I feel a little useless. I'm sort of looking...
...parents. "I was nine years old when my mother died," Nicole (not her real name) calmly begins her story. "She told me that my father did drugs and died of AIDS, and that she got it from him." Nicole's grownup demeanor disappears, however, when she starts to read aloud a letter she wrote in the year after her mother died: "Dear Mom . . . I miss you so much. That day at the funeral I just looked at you, and I saw someone else in the coffin. I was saying to myself, 'That can't be my mother.' She is still...
Perhaps the lad who wrote this one-sided screed should apply his talents to restaurant reviewing, where he can interview all the cooks who have been fired and ignore the food. He shows some promise as a humor writer: I laughed aloud at his contention that Richard's taking a sabbatical nine years into his job constitutes evidence of stress. If that be the case, then Harvard's entire senior faculty must be gobbling Valium by the case...