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...about that incident again when they met for their recent interview. "It was a hypothetical thing," Watson tells her. Someone had asked a question about aborting homosexual babies, and Watson believed mothers "should have the right" to decide when they have a baby. "I was just arguing for the freedom of women to try and have the children they want, not what is right or wrong," he continues. To be sure, picking and choosing your kids' traits is controversial enough. But it's not necessarily prejudicial. Given Watson's stature in scientific circles and his complete retraction of the Sunday...
...breast that turned out to be cancerous, as they sometimes can be. I was stunned, and so was my family. None of the women in our family had ever had to battle the disease. Since immigrating to the U.S. as a teenager, I have enjoyed more opportunity and freedom of choice than either my mother or grandmother. But I now see that I am paying the price for multitasking and the pursuit of the American Dream, with the accompanying stress and ceaseless consumerism. Focusing on the treatments is necessary, but I feel you should have given more emphasis to prevention...
...international issue. For me, it is an issue of free speech in Turkey, that the Turks should be able to talk about this, no matter what you say...I think it is upsetting that this issue can be an arm-wrestling issue internationally, rather than a moral issue of freedom of speech in Turkey,” he replied, to applause. Pamuk, whose works have been translated into over fifty languages, spoke to the universal power of literature. “A sentence is a sort of an episteme, a sort of a composition of meanings and melody. Translation...
...They asked for our obedience [following 9/11], and they asked for our trust, and we gave it to them. I resent that rip-off,” he said. “When I see the consequence of us shutting up on our ability to express our freedom of speech, our freedom of dissent, and say, ‘Wait a minute, what proof do you have?’...Those questions weren’t asked...
...Neither have today’s “terrorists” always been yesterday’s: Everyone remembers Ronald Reagan’s infamous 1983 invocation of “the ideals of freedom and independence” to describe the anti-Soviet mujahideen. And what of proactive U.S.- and U.K.-support for Saddam’s preemptive aggressiveness in the early 1980’s? And this against an Iran that had only recently emerged from 25 years ruled by a brutal dictator backed by an infamous, U.S.-trained secret police...