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...toughest call of his??young presidency, and George Bush chose an event no less momentous than his first prime-time address to announce that he had found a thin ridge of moral high ground on which to perch. The wrenching decision: whether to lend federal support to embryonic-stem-cell research, unleashing potential cures for horrific illnesses and life-shattering injuries, but at the cost of giving government sanction to the destruction of human embryos. Bush had searched both his soul and his 3-in.-thick briefing book. He had quizzed experts and ethicists and even the doctors...
...In his??interview with Syrian President Bashar Assad [March 14], Joe Klein reported that Assad "evaded the question of closing Palestinian 'rejectionist' group offices in Damascus." What is Assad supposed to do? Free speech requires that all views, however unwelcome, be allowed expression. Assad strikes me as a decent man doing his best in impossible circumstances. We could push him harder, but we would do better to support...
Ian McEwan is a very successful novelist, but he hasn't let it go to his??head. "Most of humanity gets by without reading novels or poetry," he says evenly, stretching out his long frame on a sofa in his London town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden...
...In his??column "Where's The Outrage?", about the Senate confirmation hearings of Attorney General--designate Alberto Gonzales [Jan. 17], Joe Klein wondered why there was no outrage over the abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo and elsewhere or over Gonzales' complicity in the Bush Administration decision to use severe physical interrogation techniques. A similar apathy was the response to the excesses of the Patriot Act, the question of immigrant rights, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's ineptness and arrogance, the need for affordable health insurance and, most tragic, the endless slaughter in Iraq. There is no outrage because...
In calculating his??odds of getting confirmed as Secretary of Homeland Security, former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik and his advisers had reckoned they could handle the issue of Kerik's reputation for occasional lapses of judgment in personal matters. Or that the smell of some conflict-of-interest issues still clung to him. "Everything seemed pretty normal, at least by Washington or New York standards," his mentor and boss, former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, told TIME. "It is never pleasant. You deal with it." But they hadn't counted on the nanny. Kerik's disclosure...