Word: dismissals
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It’s easy enough to dismiss Fukuyama as an out-of-touch academic. But as a member of the President’s Council of Bioethics, he has already made good on the chance to impose his curious worldview on scientists. This summer, he voted for a ban on research cloning and thereby blocked those who are trying to cure disease using this powerful tool. The scientific advances that could help save lives have already been subjugated to the narrow ideology of a political philosopher...
Attorneys representing the University, Economics Professor Andrei Shleifer ’82 and former Harvard employee Jonathan Hay were in court to defend their arguments that the judge should dismiss, on the basis of undisputed facts, a fraud suit brought against them by the U.S. government...
...might be easy to dismiss this safety concern by listing off campus services such as the shuttle as an alternative to walking. But this overlooks the real issue. The late night shuttle only comes every 25 to 30 minutes, again leaving a student alone and vulnerable on a street corner. Many students ignore this option because they cannot afford to waste half an hour waiting for the next pick-up. The reality is, students will continue to make the walk regardless of other options; they need and deserve convenient, timely access to all areas on campus...
...Until the clerics made common cause against America, the six hard-line party leaders were rivals. They stormed each other's mosques and split hairs over ideological disputes dating back to Islam's early days. Their differences were stark: some worship at the tombs of local Sufi saints; others dismiss that practice as blasphemy. Most of the parties want their women veiled from head to toe, although more liberal groups argue that it ought to be the woman's choice. The personalities of the parties' leaders have also clashed. Qazi Hussain Ahmed from the Jamaat-e-Islami is a cultured...
...clerics have a long litany of gripes against the Americans and Musharraf, whom they dismiss as "an American agent" and "a puppet." They resent him for allowing the U.S. to use Pakistani military bases in Baluchistan and the Northwest Frontier province as staging posts in its Afghan campaign. It angers them that agents of the fbi wiretap Pakistani telephones and organize raids on suspected al-Qaeda hideouts. The Islamic hard-liners even fret that cameras at the Karachi airport are feeding images into CIA computers. What riles them most is that Musharraf has buckled to U.S. pressure and scaled down...