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Charles Darwin started wrestling with questions like this when he published his 1871 book The Descent of Man. Darwin granted that his readers might doubt that humans evolved from an ancestral ape. "Man differs so greatly in his mental power from all other animals, there must be some error in this conclusion," he wrote. But he argued that the difference between us and other animals was of degree, not of kind. That applied not just to our teeth and toes but also to our morals and minds. And even, he declared, to love...
Correction: Monday’s editorial “Dealing with the Kenyan Crisis” incorrectly stated that the Kenyan elections were held December 23. In fact, they were held December 27. The Crimson regrets the error...
...Pat’s been as good as anybody for us and had been consistent,” Amaker said. “We’re the type of team where we need everybody, and we don’t have a large margin of error. Certainly, not having one of our better players didn’t help us.”A week ago, the Crimson took a 47-26 lead into the half, but this time it entered the half down, 36-26. Despite several brief spurts in the second half, the deficit would never fall...
More puzzling, though, were Harvard’s defensive miscues, which came not only in an error-prone opening half but down the stretch as well...
...here on Saturday afternoon, reporters peppered Huckabee with questions about his repeated Pakistan gaffes. He responded in his trademark style, pivoting the issue away from his small mistakes to a larger, essential theme. "We're at a point in politics where everyone wants to say you made this little error here," he said, pinching his fingers together for emphasis. "The mistakes that I think you will find me making are going to be mistakes of a word here and a figure there, but not mistakes of the heart...