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...seriously despite his inexperience in foreign affairs, he struck a tough-guy pose, compensating for shallow knowledge by adopting the combative tone of a cold warrior. Guided by advisers steeped in anticommunism, Candidate Bush sought to contrast his hard-eyed "realism" with a Clinton-Gore idealism that he called bereft of core principles and dominated by a misguided desire to insert Washington into global peacemaking. The easiest way to mark the distinction was to talk up Russia and China as nations with nukes that threatened American interests; Bush would treat them not as the friends or strategic partners of Clinton...
...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...
...children only because I could not have predicted the color of their eyes? Respect for others' lives and well-being is too fundamental to be grounded in surprise; the argument has nothing to do with the morality of genetic engineering and everything to do with how other people (presumably bereft of Will's keen moral sense) will react...
...looks away. Flesh and muscle melt from the bones of the sick in packed hospital wards and lonely bush kraals. Corpses stack up in morgues until those on top crush the identity from the faces underneath. Raw earth mounds scar the landscape, grave after grave without name or number. Bereft children grieve for parents lost in their prime, for siblings scattered to the winds...
...Georgia boy destined to become President grew up near the Depression-ravaged settlement of Archery, bereft of indoor plumbing and electricity. He became an accomplished child farmer, and even today can explain how to plow a straight furrow. In this captivating memoir he recalls his eccentric forebears, among them, the great-great-grandfather who married the sister of his deceased wife, then asked to be buried between the women but "tilted a little toward" the first wife...