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...days. But he hampered that effort with two comments. First he revived one of the most controversial periods of his own past by saying he felt vindicated in his opposition to the Vietnam War, thanks to the penitent memoirs of former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. Then Clinton strained to assert his own relevance to events in Washington. He was relevant, he insisted in a press conference, because the U.S. Constitution said so. His aides winced...
...anyone, including a judge in South Carolina, to say that they do not have the right to know the truth about the extraordinary past of an applicant for membership in the community they oversee because they cannot be trusted to be discreet and act fairly? Whoever wants to assert that ought to state it plainly. And then they should state what that view leads to--that Harvard is not a community where the many adhere to a code of conduct that rests on humanitarian ideals, but just a collection of individuals who are morally free to get here...
...child could have fought off the virus, especially since a baby's immune systems isn't fully functional until the age of 18 months or so. Moreover, the HIV in the baby's and the mother's blood is genetically different. That could be, as the UCLA researchers assert, because the mother's virus wasn't studied until a year after the birth, and had time to mutate. Even if the baby did pick up HIV from his mother, that doesn't mean he was infected. Immunologists know that living cells from mothers often get passed along to newborns, where...
...Social Security really such an untouchable issue? As younger workers become a larger proportion of the electorate, they can be expected to assert their own interest in the matter, which is not the status quo. And it's even possible to hear at least a peep of compromise from the American Association of Retired Persons, the huge lobby that has treated most prior talk about changing Social Security the way the National Rifle Association of America reacts to new gun-control bills. "It's probably true that in the future we're going to have to lower benefits...
...October the World Bank released an international study of pension systems that deemed the Chilean approach instructive not only to the developing countries the bank serves but also to advanced industrial nations with troubled government-financed pension systems, such as France, Germany, Italy--and the U.S. Social Security scholars assert that there is not the same urgency for change in the U.S. But, says Robert Genetski, a Chicago-based economic consultant, "when the American worker finds out that the typical worker in Chile has more assets than we have, the American worker is going to get very upset...