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...watch our nation and its leaders unite in mourning the deaths of fellow citizens known to many of us only in their loss is a testament to the innate sense that each human life is sacred. In a dramatic way we have renewed our commitment as a nation to defend innocent human life. These considerations follow a recent national discussion about ethics and public policy: President George W. Bush’s Aug. 9 decision to restrict federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. While critics dismiss the decision as merely political, we insist that our country?...
Some will defend Clemens, pointing to the hamstring injury that suddenly flared up as soon as Oakland starting wailing on him in Game One of the ALDS. Who knows, maybe Roger actually was playing hurt. With Clemens, though, it’s always something—a pulled groin, a sore hamstring or a hangnail. By now, Roger is pretty much the boy who cried wolf. And whether he fakes his injuries or not, whether he asks out of games or not, the reality is, for one reason or another, he always disappears when the game is on the line...
...seemed so helpless. Not only have investigators failed to trace the highly refined anthrax sent to government leaders and media icons across the nation, but worse yet, they don’t even know whether to look here or overseas. After Sept. 11 showed how unprepared we are to defend against terrorism at home, the ongoing anthrax scare suggests that we are even less equipped to investigate...
...terrorists. I pray that peace can be achieved quickly [ANTIWAR MOVEMENT, Oct. 1]. Those who protest war and exercise their freedom of speech in the name of peace, however, fail to understand that this freedom is threatened. They enjoy their freedom solely because of those who were willing to defend it with their lives. Peace often has a price. War has been declared on our nation. How many more casualties will there be before the protesters recognize this? GARETT WOOD Santa Ana, Calif...
Does Harvard—which has benefited immeasurably from simply being an American institution—have an obligation, as President Lawrence H. Summers suggested in his inaugural speech last Friday, “to honor those who defend our freedom”? Or is it acceptable to treat those who defend that freedom as a secondary class engaged in the nation’s dirty work...