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Justice Department prosecutors say they have known for months that Williams would receive harsh criticism, and had long since decided against having him testify. Instead they will call Steven Burmeister, a chemist praised in the report as meticulous, and Linda Jones, a British explosives expert. Burmeister performed the tests that showed traces of an explosive on McVeigh's clothing. He found no evidence that the clothes had been mishandled, the officials say. They acknowledge that some debris may have been contaminated, but they say that these were never intended to be used as evidence. All very reasonable, perhaps...
...because she was taken out of Man.' Therefore a man leaves his father and cleaves to his wife and they become one flesh." There is no mention made of a man leaving his parents to be with another man. Indeed, the Old Testament penalty for homosexual sex is very harsh. Leviticus 20:13 declares, "If a man lies with a male as with a woman both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them." However, the teachings of Christ in the New Testament tell Christians to deal with the sins...
...pains to foster a competitive atmosphere before students ever set foot on its campus? Many Harvard students, who by any other standard are quite stellar, suffer from believing they are not good enough or accomplished enough simply because simply because some of theirs peers are summa cum everything. Such harsh self-criticism is not a positive by-product of being surrounded by 6,400 talented people. It may drive students even harder to succeed, but this, too has its negative aspects...
...sits down in a restaurant and immediately begins talking loudly into a cell phone about what would or wouldn't be a deal-breaker and who is or isn't a player? If the rap for intercepting cell-phone conversations (up to five years in prison) is considered too harsh for this sort of infraction, what about giving this guy some lesser penalty like suspension of luxury-sedan driving privileges or confiscation of red suspenders...
There are good reasons to believe, however, that harsh assumptions about Americans' compassion and prudence are not justified today--if they ever were. One of the most encouraging messages from the November election is that even as voters demand an end to welfare dependency, they want a stronger social safety net--not entitlement subsidies for rich and poor alike, but instead temporary help for those who work hard and suffer a layoff, a divorce or the illness of a child. Exit polls, as well as interviews by TIME correspondents with voters in cafes and K Marts, indicate that this desire...