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...number of advertisements questioning the authenticity of stories about the Holocaust and of the Holocaust itself. In the past few years, he's sent those ads to college newspapers across the country--including The Crimson. We received a full-page advertisement from Smith in 1991. There was no campus furor here; we didn...
...furor arises over the use of human cadavers in crash tests...
President Clinton is no doubt relieved that the furor over his administration's foreign policy has died down. Last month, after the debacle in Somalia, he came under fire from all directions for being an incompetent novice, incapable of running the country's foreign relations. Now, a few weeks later, the talking heads have simmered down...
...suppress the black vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...
There is an element of hypocrisy to much of the anticloning furor, or if not hypocrisy, superstition. The fact is we are already well down the path leading to genetic manipulation of the creepiest sort. Life-forms can be patented, which means they can be bought and sold and potentially traded on the commodities markets. Human embryos are life-forms, and there is nothing to stop anyone from marketing them now, on the same shelf with the Cabbage Patch dolls...