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...extent that genetic engineering is dangerous, the danger must lie with the parents rather than the children. The greatest concern of Will and of Leon Kass, the ethicist whose work he cites, is that the genetic engineering would invert the Nicene Creed: children would be created, not begotten--human artifacts bereft of mystery, dignity and individual worth. Parents would consider their children as playthings; in short, humans would play...
...MIGHT NOT The comic camping is too facile. Malkovich's Teutonic twittering soon palls; he was funnier, and eerier, when he was being John Malkovich. And Merhige has gone a bit mainstream for those of us who treasure his 1991 Begotten as a great phantasmagoric weirdie: black and white, no dialogue and plenty creepy--just like Nosferatu...
Moreover, Suharto's shadow may hang over Indonesia until the disposition of the ex-dictator's allegedly ill-begotten fortune is determined. Last month a court in Jakarta threw out a defamation suit brought by Suharto against TIME for a May 1999 article claiming that the President and his family had acquired some $15 billion during his rule. (Suharto has appealed.) Wahid cites the suit as proof of the dictator's hidden wealth. Defense Minister Juwono Sudarsono has accused cronies of Suharto's of inciting bloody riots to derail further investigations. Yet in the meantime, Wahid has been secretly negotiating...
...their worst fear and sending Street walkers back to cowering under their desks. Bye-bye rally. Of course, if investors and traders see all this coming and sell on the news, they may have to make room under that desk for Uncle Alan -? a harmless rate hike will have begotten a serious monetary neurosis. "The Fed won?t announce a bias like last time, because this is the hike it was warning us about," says Baumohl. "It?s shifting back into neutral." Of course, to a market that?s just aching to be unleashed, "neutral" is like raw meat...
...What we beget is like ourselves while what we make is not," Harrell said. "By virtue of their having been made, [genetically engineered or cloned offspring] would be less than human as we are less than God by our virtue of being made, and not begotten...