Word: impeller
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...this, I think, is at the heart of what is disturbing about Bush's faith in this moment of national crisis: it does not discomfort him enough; it does not impel him to have second thoughts, to explore other intellectual possibilities or question the possible consequences of his actions. I asked one of Bush's closest advisers last week if the President had struggled with his Iraq decision. "No," he said, peremptorily, then quickly amended, "He understands the enormity of it, he understands the nuances, but has there been hand-wringing or existential angst along the way? No." (This...
...goal in itself. His suit will likely raise interesting legal questions about war powers and create welcome debate about the shift of war-making power from Congress to the President. In particular, it could stimulate much-needed debate about the unconstitutional way in which President Bush has tried to impel the country toward war in Iraq...
...this, I think, is at the heart of what is disturbing about Bush's faith in this moment of national crisis: it does not discomfort him enough; it does not impel him to have second thoughts, to explore other intellectual possibilities or question the possible consequences of his actions. I asked one of Bush's closest advisers last week if the President had struggled with his Iraq decision. "No," he said, peremptorily, then quickly amended, "He understands the enormity of it, he understands the nuances, but has there been hand-wringing or existential angst along the way? No." (This...
Indeed, some scientists argue that a total cloning ban would impel top U.S. scientists to move overseas, where there is more public support. Britain banned reproductive cloning but is allowing therapeutic research to move forward. "Blanket bans on technology are almost always a mistake," argues Tim Caulfield, research director of the Health Law Institute at the University of Alberta. "You don't ban fertilizer because you can use it to make bombs. Don't ban cloning because it may be abused. What we should do is regulate the activities that may be abused, like human reproductive cloning...
...allowed this mockery-making of psychological illness and of an individual upon whom Harvard thought it worthy to bestow a degree. It is my sincere hope that there will be some published follow-up, lest we all be left to wonder, and, with no direction for our concerns to impel action, lest human compassion fade to apathy and Agatha M. Okyere, the living woman, vanish off our streets and into Harvard lore and worse, Harvard jokes...