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...grudging acceptance of Pakistan's military rule is an embrace of the doctrine that expediency trumps conviction. Telling foreign governments what to do and what not to do is dangerous meddling in other states' affairs, fraught with many dangers and not enough rewards. Haven't we got enough on our plate with Iraq? John M. Massey, KATY, TEXAS...
...opposition appears no more willing to allow an already fraught situation to deteriorate any further. Wiam Wahhab, a senior opposition figure, told TIME that opposition supporters were prepared to take to the streets if the March 14 block attempts a unilateral move on the presidency, but doubted such an outcome. "I don't think they will dare try this, unless the Americans have a benefit from it in which case we will have another problem," he said...
...Their papers cap a year of remarkable research, in which scientists have surged ahead of ethicists and politicians in finding ever more clever ways to generate stem cells. But where other breakthroughs relied on using cells from living embryos - tiny bits of inchoate life, fraught with ethical issues - the work by Yamanaka and Thomson sidesteps that abyss by nursing adult cells into a state in which their cellular destiny is yet to be fulfilled. No embryos, no eggs, no hand-wringing over where the cells come from and whether it is ethical to make them in the first place...
...grudging acceptance of Pakistan's military rule is an embrace of the doctrine that expediency trumps conviction. Telling foreign governments what to do and what not to do is dangerous meddling in other states' affairs, fraught with many dangers and not enough rewards. John M. Massey, Katy, Texas...
Pity Pervez Musharraf. For a military dictator torn between the forces of Islamic extremism and international opinion, even a trip to the museum is fraught. When the General opened Pakistan's National Art Gallery in August, he was confronted with gutsy pieces tackling an array of provocative subjects - from burqas to madrasahs to militarism. He paused for a long time at Left Right, a video installation about the omnipresence of Pakistan's army by the young artist Hamra Abbas, who depicts soldiers patrolling land, sea and desert...