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...bunch similar flowers tightly together and craft them into geometric shapes. Their graphic color-blocked creations almost managed to turn the carnation into a glamorous flower again. "If you're creating flowers for a modern space, the purely romantic won't make a dent," says Stark. Instead these flowers insist on making an impression...
...your item on efforts by universities to compel Christian student organizations to comply with nondiscrimination clauses and allow non-Christians to be leaders [Notebook, Jan. 13]: Will the schools also go after fraternities and sororities for their single-sex policies? Will colleges insist that Jewish groups be open to Muslim fundamentalists? This policy is a consequence of defining discrimination as making decisions on grounds of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation or ability. Everybody can see that exceptions need to be made. Any ideology-based organization must insist that its members and especially its leaders subscribe to its ideology; otherwise...
...begin with a provocation: ever since Vietnam, the hawks have almost always been right on major questions of national security. Ronald Reagan was right to insist on placing Pershing missiles in Europe, right to disdain the nuclear-freeze movement, right to push ahead with Star Wars, right to call the Soviet Union an "evil empire." George H.W. Bush was right to liberate Kuwait (and wrong not to push on to Baghdad when he had the world on his side). Even after the hawks and doves changed parties during the Clinton years, Democratic hawks were right about the use of force...
South Korea's leaders insist that the nuclear crisis on the Korean peninsula can be defused by maintaining peaceful dialogue with North Korea's erratic dictator Kim Jong Il. But black clouds fell across the South's "Sunshine Policy" last week. First, a special envoy sent by Seoul to Pyongyang was rebuffed?the Dear Leader, it seems, was too busy touring the nation's fallow farms. Then North Korea, responding to U.S. President George W. Bush's stern State of the Union address, turned its bellicose rhetoric up to 11, calling Bush "a shameless charlatan." The Stalinist country then appeared...
...journal Science editorialized over the summer on the unacceptability of researchers refusing to share scientific materials with Israeli colleagues. By convention, scientists must honor requests for materials to allow others to reproduce their work. Science editor Donald Kennedy wrote that his journal would “continue to insist that authors have an obligation to share material.” The editorial was prompted by a researcher refusing to share materials with an Israeli scientist...