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Naturally, microscopic blastocysts in a petri dish do not evoke our reflexive compassion the way those individuals suffering from awful, incurable diseases do. And indeed, if emotion were the sole determinant of one’s position, he or she would undoubtedly favor stem-cell research. But public policy should not reflect a hasty utilitarian calculus born of sentimentality; it should reflect logic flowing from scrupulous moral deliberation. That may seem a callous thing to say, especially given the heartfelt appeals for stem-cell research from the likes of Michael J. Fox, who is afflicted with Parkinson?...
...Australian I experienced it all firsthand. And having survived the trauma, I’m returning the favor. I frequently delight in relating embellished accounts of my adventures from back home. Riding kangaroos while drinking Fosters is a personal favorite—and Americans always applaud. And if they’re lucky, I might even mutter a somewhat indignant rendition of “Crikey” for a polite Crocodile Hunter...
...clumsy brutality of his campaign against Chechen separatism fuel concerns that post-communist Russia is being turned, once again, into a fiefdom worthy of the Czars and the Commissars. And the fact that Putin has eschewed the roll-over-and-beg geopolitics of his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, in favor of a vigorous nationalist foreign policy that frequently puts Moscow at odds with Washington compounds those concerns...
...uses the shorthand phrase Massachusetts liberal. Bush last week instead pointed to the particular when he told Republican Governors, "The candidates are an interesting group, with diverse opinions: for tax cuts and against them. For NAFTA and against NAFTA. For the Patriot Act and against the Patriot Act. In favor of liberating Iraq and opposed to it. And that's just one Senator from Massachusetts...
Then again, voters in the early Democratic primaries, a perversely serious minority of the electorate, rejected the passionate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, a candidate nuanced to the point of paralysis. In the dictionary, passion is defined as "suffering" first and then as "emotion ... as opposed to reason." Kerry isn't emotional, and he certainly isn't addicted to the explicit. In the year of The Passion, he stands as a quixotic reproach to the prevailing sensationalism, an unintentional rebel against our shock-a-minute culture...