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...grim logic of virology, Indonesia's decision was unconscionable and self-defeating. We need surveillance in every nation to track bird flu as it changes. But Jakarta got the attention of WHO officials, who came to the Indonesian capital earlier this week for an emergency meeting at which Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari called the current distribution system "more dangerous than the threat of an H5N1 pandemic itself." On March 27 the two sides reached a temporary compromise: Indonesia would resume sharing virus samples with the WHO, but for now that access wouldn't be extended to the drug industry...
...Many non-blacks assert that they shouldn't apologize for something they didn't do. There is logic to that thinking: if you didn't own slaves or enable others to own slaves, you aren't culpable. But the U.S. didn't do a very good job of converting its former slaves to full-fledged citizens. Slavery gave way to Jim Crow, lynchings, poll taxes, redlining and educational and job discrimination. Although illegal now, these tools perpetuated a racial hierarchy that affects every American today, no matter how subtly. Just compare any rates of achievement, poverty, imprisonment by race; blacks...
...logic which justifies many small budget cuts over the entire school year as being inherently better than one cut at the end is fallacious; there is nothing “wrong” with an end-of-the-year cut that is not also “wrong” with smaller cuts made gradually throughout the school year. Both force the UC to make rather arbitrary cuts to student group events which it would otherwise like to fund...
...weekend in the Adams House Pool Theater, written and produced by Jessica S. Benjamin ’07 and directed by Dipika Guha—seemed almost unquestionable. The dialogue, the discontinuities, and the play’s fundamental indifference to narrative all pointed to the same Surrealist conclusion: logic was not welcome here...
...characters were impetuous and emotional, and they followed an inscrutable logic, but their strange dialogues belied a sophisticated self-consciousness of the artistic enterprise in play throughout “The Secret Lives of Umbrellas...