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With Schiavo's life hanging in the balance, and people on both sides of the case holding strong beliefs about her right to live or die, passions were understandably running high. But as the endless barrage of inflammatory rhetoric and sometimes blatant posturing continued, the Florida woman at the center of the bitterly fought case seemed to have become a sideshow. "This is not about Terri Schiavo," says George Annas, chairman of the health law department at Boston University School of Public Health. "I think this is about abortion and stem cells. Congress wants to say that we need...
...only the human cost of such historical blindness, but also its societal and cultural effects, we should be extremely wary of the triumphalism that now marks our present discourse. Francis Fukuyama’s famous “End of History” argument is only the most blatant example of this. Much discussion now seems to assume that the gravest threat we will face in the next century will be fixing Social Security. Yet history has not, and never will, “end” anymore than it did during the 19th century?...
...truly unfortunate that Kaabour could not be present to more fully introduce his film, and his struggle is a blatant example of the injustice facing Arab immigrants. While the United States and Canadian governments continue to create policy unfairly biased against the entire Arab community, young directors like Kaabour need to continue documenting the true individuality of persons of diverse ethnic, religious and social backgrounds...
...purpose, but manage to maintain a humor that gives more resilience to the weaker musical moments, whereas the minute an Oasis song isn’t a song as good as ”Don’t Look Back in Anger,” the high-mindedness and blatant subscription to guitar-rock cliché becomes brutally apparent...
Asking Native Americans to provide proof of their identity also opens the door to applying the process to African-Americans, Latinos and any other so-called “minority” or “desirable” group. It displays a blatant lack of trust that is insulting to Harvard’s applicants. It forces students to provide tangible evidence that their background is what they say it is. This is uncomfortable for many students still struggling with their identities, as well as cumbersome...