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...presidencies ever unfold before our eyes. Bill cannot get a Diet Coke without screwing up, and Hillary can’t watch him do it without somehow aiding and abetting and then trying to make up for it with such phoniness that only Barney Frank is fooled. Her latest endeavor was to support a bill that sets limits on lobbying for presidential pardon. This is absurdity in such a pure state that nobody except the New York Post has even bothered to touch it, instead choosing to marvel at such a rare gem with Bill O’Reilly-esque...
...Institutions around the world would be able to integrate the teachings of Harvard faculty into their research and curricula. Younger students could utilize this information to further their interests through college-level work, regardless of whether they’re interested in organic chemistry, American history or Chinese. This endeavor should not monetarily benefit Harvard; keeping this service free commits Harvard to the principle of intellectual discussion for the sake of knowledge rather than the often-almighty dollar. Finally, by helping millions everywhere, Harvard would send a signal to the world that it is fully committed to the free exchange...
...only creating girl group Eden's Crush but also giving it a guaranteed contract on a label owned by the WB's (and TIME's) parent AOL Time Warner. (O-Town was turned down by several labels before signing with J Records, veteran music exec Clive Davis' new endeavor.) Popstars' treatment of the young synergettes makes Making the Band look like a Bill Moyers special; it cheerfully depicts its women as a hungry, hardworking pop juggernaut in leather pants, portraying them with all the hard-nosed pugnaciousness of a Tiger Beat cover. Producers Scott A. Stone and David G. Stanley...
...investment of human effort and technology in experiments to clone humans represents the worst type of scientific endeavor [SOCIETY, Feb. 19]. Why is it that Nature, in all its splendid manifestations, tends everywhere to spectacular diversity and mind-boggling detail, yet whenever we seek to copy it, we achieve only bleak standardization and stifling unity? Our scientific obsession with the cloning of spiritless matter will lead us to further spiritual impoverishment and predictable genetic disaster. MARTHE MULLER Cape Town...
...although the plans for the center have no formal ties to Harvard's CHRP, Carr said he does see a possible role for University professors to assist in his new endeavor...