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...applicant—by reiterating the denominational concern—McLeod’s newly conjured qualm about the ACOI’s “receiving body” puzzled Father Woodruff. A receiving body of 10 Harvard students, Faculty and staff who attend the church must exist for an organization to get UM membership. According to Father Woodruff, however, his receiving body was in order. The UM just didn’t seem willing to admit...
...ended, there was no army anymore to disband. To have left an army that had attacked every one of Iraq's neighbors, which was responsible for some of the most brutal repression of the Iraqi people, which was hated by many Iraqis and which in any case did not exist as an organized operation, we would have had to re-create the army--that is simply illogical...
...lighting which welcomed me to work every day, the rules change. The conduct required beneath the chandelier in the main atrium or on the walkways of the garden is replaced by a coarse neo-Hobbesian code applicable only to those donning the uniform blues. Though clearly defined social distinctions exist within the group, an unwavering loathing of those not belonging to their Baltic tribal clique transcends all barriers. The Muslims hate the Christians and vice-versa, thanks to generations of ethnic and religious warfare, and no one seemed to like Benny very much. But if an outsider dare slight just...
Some therefore argue that frozen embryos merely have the “potential” for life. This implies that they currently exist in a nebulous state of almost- or partial-aliveness. Logically speaking, can an embryo be partially alive? (Can a woman be partially pregnant?) If a frozen embryo is not worthy of legal protection until it is implanted in a womb, or until it is born, then we have made location the decisive criterion for personhood. But aside from their being at different stages of human development, what, really, is the difference between a frozen embryo awaiting implantation...
...casualty a week. But in both countries, the U.S. has attempted to nation-build on the cheap, limiting the numbers of troops committed to postwar tasks, and in both places, the military has been undermined by the challenges of trying to keep peace where it doesn't yet exist. Only now are U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan starting to make up for lost time. The U.S. recently moved 40-soldier platoons into villages along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where they live among the locals and glad-hand tribal leaders in exchange for intelligence on the Taliban and al-Qaeda...