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...sympathizers. The army, while marginally better than the police, is divided along sectarian lines and is largely ineffective. Whole battalions do not show up for combat duties they don't like. It is not possible to build a national army or police force when there is no nation to begin with...
DAWKINS: Can I begin with an analogy? Most people understand that sexual lust has to do with propagating genes. Copulation in nature tends to lead to reproduction and so to more genetic copies. But in modern society, most copulations involve contraception, designed precisely to avoid reproduction. Altruism probably has origins like those of lust. In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote because they shared our genes. Now we live in big cities. We are not among kin nor people who will ever reciprocate our good...
Fraser didn’t take long to begin helping his team, scoring the Crimson’s first goal of the 2006-07 campaign in what eventually proved to be a season-opening loss to Dartmouth...
Focusing too much on the bright future will create a “lost generation” of students stuck between old and new. By expanding the Core, the principles of the new general education system can begin to be applied to the old system. The Classes of 2007 to 2010 may not get the full benefit of a new general education system, but they should not be totally left behind...
...legislative hierarchy - was invoked to hand off the review of death penalty cases to provincial courts. The idea was that this would expedite death sentencing and curb crime. Legal scholars and death penalty opponents (a minority in China) complained that this devolving of authority had been illegal to begin with, but in a country where the rule of law is weak, their concerns didn't get much traction...