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Baltimore should issue a fuller apology, accounting for his alleged cover-up of the initial fraud. Then he should reflect for a week or two and consider stepping down from his position as president of Rockefeller University and de facto science statesman. Give him a modest lab to work in, maybe one in the old Rockefeller buildings where the microbe hunters toiled decades ago. I picture something with a river view, where it is impossible to forget that Manhattan is an island, that the earth is a planet, and that there is something out there much larger, and possibly even...
Twice the House of Commons had passed a bill allowing prosecution in Britain of suspected Nazi war criminals. And twice the House of Lords had rejected it, arguing that such ex post facto legislation was a violation of Anglo-Saxon legal precepts. So last week the government invoked a rare constitutional process to override the Lords' objections and ensure enactment of the War Crimes Bill, which is expected to be signed into law by Queen Elizabeth this week...
...compare 2 Live Crew to Shakespeare! When I was asked if there were instances of lewd language in Western literature, I cited a few obvious examples: Chaucer, Shakespeare, Joyce. This observation shows that lewd language isn't ipso facto proof of obscenity. But that's all it shows...
...Renewed violence claimed 12 lives -- six Israelis, six Arab guerrillas -- in the 24 hours prior to Baker's arrival in Jerusalem. Israeli legislators asserted that the government plans to build as many as 11,000 new apartments for Jewish settlers in occupied territories, continuing what looks like a de facto annexation of the West Bank and Gaza. And in Damascus, Baker and his hosts confirmed a sign of a new arms race: Syria had just received from North Korea a shipment of 24 Soviet-built Scud-C missiles, which have bigger warheads and are more accurate than Iraq's Scud...
...home, I was acutely ashamed of my unease. No amount of post facto rationalizing (It was a high-crime neighborhood, I'm just not used to being in the city), could erase the fear that a dangerous, latent racism lurked beneath my avowedly liberal exterior...