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...KERNS Columbus, Ohio Genesis answers some of the most vital questions every person asks at some point in his life: Who am I? Where do I come from? Why is there so much evil and suffering in the world? Is there any purpose to life? Science, with all its factual trappings, has failed miserably to answer these crucial questions. RAJENDRA PILLAI St. Davids, Pennsylvania Via E-mail
...these "other circumstances" which she had earlier alluded to, she explained that she did not think I had focused enough in my editorial of October 21 on the college's stance that I was misusing college resources. (Braunstein and Colton had, understandably, both interpreted her comment as implying a factual omission.) I then asked her whether the Ad Board had the right to punish legal, non-academic behavior, she replied that it did. When I asked her to explain this prerogative, she said that because I was a member of the Harvard community I had to obey the rules...
...meeting began with an explanation of provisions of the bill by a White House budget aide. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala interrupted with disparaging comments, Clinton with factual questions. The President then went around the room. Shalala bitterly attacked the bill; Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros, Labor Secretary Robert Reich and Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin also counseled a veto. Commerce Secretary Mickey Kantor, however, said, "I'm for [the bill] on the politics and on the merits." He remarked that as a legal-services attorney in the 1970s, he had found the welfare system to be fundamentally broken...
...decade ago not much was known about AIDS and discussions of how and to whom it was transmitted contained little factual and unbiased information. I would have hoped that McFadden would have done more accurate research before biasing an already misinformed public. AIDS is a deadly disease worth the serious attention of our government and health care agencies. The sexuality of the person who contracts it ought to be irrelevant to the discussion of a search for a cure. But it was precisely because it was not irrelevant in the minds of legislators, that it has taken so long...
While numerous additional specific factual and contextual inconsistencies litter Nelson's account, a comprehensive micro-analysis remains beyond the scope of this letter. The general shortcoming of Nelson's article is a failure to distinguish between extremism and fundamentalism. The potential for religious extremism exists within any religious group, as demonstrated by tragic events in both Waco and Hebron. Christian fundamentalists include conservative Republicans wishing to reinstitute school prayer; nobody would accuse these religious fundamentalists, in Nelson's words, of wandering down a "dark path" or being opportunistic "parasites...