Word: ideas
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Finally, Meselson has examined the idea of suppression, or how mutations can be compensated for each other...
...recent Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) ad hoc committee proposal recommending a Civil War memorial including the names of Confederate soldiers disturbs us on both philosophical and practical counts. We believe that the idea of memorializing Confederate soldiers represents a troubling historical amnesia. The proposal was tabled by the Board of Overseers, but we remain concerned about the manner in which the HAA committee considered this issue...
...exemption. "Evil exists," a student in the South Bronx told me in the course of a long conversation about ethics and religion in the fall of 1993. "Somebody has power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people--that is my idea of evil...
...attention to the polls for two reasons. The first is that I think they are generally wrong; the second is that I think a politician should be a leader and not a follower. That means he should base his decisions on the commitments he has made, on his idea of the future, on his vision of the country, and not on public opinion. I have seven years before me and a great determination, so of course it is not the polls that will give me doubts...
...know what I'm doing is right and good," says Victoria Case, 26, of Shelby County, Kentucky. "But it's a lonely life as a social worker, because people have a skewed idea of what we do. They think we're baby snatchers." Yet the 1993 case that has left child-welfare workers in her state embittered and defensive was just the opposite: social workers failed to snatch 22-month-old Daniel Reynolds and were subsequently charged with complicity in his murder...