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...argument for doing away with damnation was a good one. However, with a number of pedophile/pederast priests on lam or beyond the reach of the criminal courts (and human punishment) because of the statute of limitations, no doubt many Catholics who might not have believed in hell before, might be hoping that one exists...
Your article on the Georgia crematory that failed to cremate hundreds of bodies [NATION, March 4] seemed to call for increased government regulation. The story shoots down its own argument, however, when it points out a similar case "in California, which has some of the tightest controls in the industry." If more government regulation is the answer, why hasn't it worked? Yes, it's horrible that things like this happen. But government can't solve every problem, and increased government power will not prevent tragedies like these. MICHAEL GEARY San Jose, Calif...
...Hajji Mullah Sahib does not so much converse as lecture. Afghanistan's woes, past and present, he argues, are the fault of malign interference by the Soviets and the Americans. Operation Enduring Freedom, he says, is a pretense for manipulating Afghan affairs. In a blink he dismisses the argument that the U.S.-led coalition aims only to eradicate al-Qaeda. "If the Arabs were terrorists, why didn't America just catch them?" he asks, instead of launching...
...conflict were not the only ones standing outside Science Center B yesterday (News, “Students Confront Dershowitz Over Article,” March 20). I was there, too, standing opposite the group with a counter-protest of my own. To make sure that both sides of the argument were represented, I wrote two signs of my own: “End Suicide Bombings” and (in response to the protesters’ “What if Cambridge were Bulldozed?”) my own “What if Tommy’s Were Blown...
...same trap. Even seniors seem to be comparatively immune—presumably because long years of experience have taught then that TFs really aren’t all that frightening. With maturity comes confidence and with confidence the knack of knowing how to phrase one’s argument in a concise and clear fashion. Given time, the “likes” should fall away altogether...