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That seems to be a blanket statement for Harvard’s offense. After all, Packard and Turano weren’t alone last weekend...
Coming to Harvard with a legacy, Rogers says, can give students a different perspective. Choosing his words carefully, he explains, “I don’t want to make a blanket statement. Maybe they are a little bit more relaxed. [Legacy students] definitely work hard, but they are pretty comfortable here—not too stressed...
...homeless families, are invisible to the rest of the world--invisible not because they provoke people to look away in discomfort or guilt but because they look and act no different from the rest of us. These are not the deranged homeless ranting in their portable bedlam, a ratty blanket near a street heat grate. Families like the Cochrans live in our neighborhoods, go to our churches, attend the same public schools as our kids. And in Columbus there are more of them every day: demand for shelter by families with young children is up 14% over last year...
Indeed, some scientists argue that a total cloning ban would impel top U.S. scientists to move overseas, where there is more public support. Britain banned reproductive cloning but is allowing therapeutic research to move forward. "Blanket bans on technology are almost always a mistake," argues Tim Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. "You don't ban fertilizer because you can use it to make bombs. Don't ban cloning because it may be abused. What we should do is regulate the activities that may be abused, like human reproductive cloning...
...exclusive access that allows Woodward to recount such stories, however, makes us doubt the authenticity of his account. We do not know if he has truly bypassed the administration’s de facto blanket on information about the war. His privileged access to key players may have enabled him to get a story that the rest of his colleagues could not, but it also means that his story is circumscribed by what the administration chose to reveal...