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Bush has compared the decision about federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research to a decision to commit troops to battle. This is biology spilled down a slippery slope; the arguments divide and subdivide and seemed to promise only injury to a rookie President not known for taking on the hardest moral and intellectual questions of our time. But far from ducking, week after week White House aides raised the stakes. When they saw him engage the issue so deeply, they realized that stem-cell research was not just a tough call but a fresh chance--an opportunity to reintroduce...
...Georgia a young couple came up to him and pleaded for stem-cell research to continue for another six months so it might save their ailing child. The President, Rove told the Congressmen, considered the consequences of a stem-cell decision "no less important than a decision to commit troops...
...that a Catholic priest would violate his calling by betraying a penitent. (Towle says Fornes' statement wasn't part of a formal religious confession.) To others, the shock was that a man of God kept silent while two innocent men languished behind bars for a crime they didn't commit...
...House of Delegates, meeting in Chicago, voted 243 to 184 in favor of a new rule that would allow lawyers to disclose client secrets to prevent "reasonably certain death or substantial bodily harm." The old rules already allowed lawyers to speak out when a client was imminently going to commit a crime. But the new policy lets lawyers speak out even when the potential for harm is not immediate and when the act is not criminal...
...wanted to teach right after college, but I didn?t want to go to education school - too many hours, too much money to commit to a career I wasn?t sure I wanted long-term. So I applied to my high school alma mater, a private day school in New Jersey. During the day of interviews my standard line, so earnest, so arrogant, was, "I want to give something back." It took the head of the upper school to call my bluff: "If you only stay a year or two," he asked, "do you really think you?ll be giving...