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...officer was sent to the River dorms to investigate a sexual assault case. Detectives are investigating...
There is a need to call this one-sided assault on Israel together with the many anti-Jewish incidents around the world for what they are: Anti-Semitism. University President Lawrence H. Summers and other college and university administrators have courageously spoken out about rising anti-Semitism, and they deserve commendation for their words...
...just more terrorist hunters than there used to be. In addition to the 8,000 members of the armed forces in Afghanistan, there are now nearly 800 U.S. forces based in the East African nation of Djibouti, across the Red Sea from Yemen, and a Marine Corps amphibious assault ship, the Belleau Wood, has been in the area since August. Sources tell TIME the U.S. is looking to use the port of Assab in Eritrea as a naval base to keep an eye on traffic between Yemen, Sudan and Somalia. At home, the CIA's Counter-Terrorism Center...
...those nuances are generally lost in Pinker's all-out assault on those who insist that nurture explains everything--as if anybody still believes that anymore. And his evidence for the power of our genes is, at best, a work in progress. Are liberal and conservative political attitudes really, as Pinker confidently asserts, "largely, though far from completely, heritable"? Are art and literature "in trouble" because they've drifted away from what our genes would prefer to see and hear? Maybe. Yet as with any polemic, this one is delivered with more certainty than it merits. The book is hugely...
...that those were trying times for our nation, but so little discussion was an insult to the traditions of free and open inquiry on which this country has prided itself. The fruits of the bill were rotten long before its inception, and its first year in effect constituted an assault on civil liberties. Coupled with the actions of the Bush administration, the past year has been one of the worst for the exercise of freedoms and liberties in memory. Pillars of the American constitutional framework have been tossed aside or curtailed, all in the name of increased security...