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DeWolfe’s location—a prime spot for overflow housing from Quincy and Leverett Houses—makes it an ideal spot for expanded student housing, Woodberry said...
...Karzai's voice there, is an American citizen: Taj Muhammad Wardak spent the past decade in Los Angeles.) Shah-i-Kot was a well-known base for the mujahedin fighting Soviet forces in the 1980s; indeed, the Soviets never took the valley. The soft shale on the ridges is ideal for the construction of caves. One cave, visited last week by a TIME reporter, was at least 36 m deep and high enough to swallow a pickup truck. Many Afghans in Paktia still sympathize with the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Near Khost, the tomb of an al-Qaeda warrior killed...
...British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin said that the Alsatian capital, "which throughout its long history has suffered as a bone of contention between the warring nations of Europe," would make an ideal home for the Council of Europe. His wish came true in 1949, and other European institutions followed. The European Parliament meets for a week every month in stunning new waterside offices, and the Court of Human Rights passes judgement in a huddle of futuristic buildings designed by renowned British architect Richard Rogers. All three institutions are open to the public...
...this campus more conservative when they leave than they were when they got here. MacKenzie’s ridiculous assertions that it is better to be sucked into a vacuum (the abortion method he cites to defend the humaneness of the procedure) than to be born into a non-ideal situation certainly serves to make many moderate and rational students rethink whether they want to be associated with such “pro-choice” radicals. The same is true for his assertion that women are better off having abortions than having unwanted children. Any thinking individual could imagine...
...positive good,” benefiting both slave and master. MacKenzie’s piece performs this role for abortion, claiming that it benefits both mother (right to abortion is right to life for her) and child (better to be terminated than born into non-ideal circumstances). I thank MacKenzie for placing abortion on the same historical trajectory as slavery, and I look forward to the eventual emancipation of unborn children...