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...result, we are left with two options. If we wish to maintain a moral society, we must in effect drive ourselves extinct to avoid the death of innocent embryos, or we must dismiss the idea that conception is the point at which a life legally begins. One imagines that the second course of action is easier to accept, or at least to pass through Congress...
...children of illegal immigrants in-state tuition rates, his spending plans, and his opposition to rolling back the state income tax from 5.3 to 5 percent. Most controversially, she has run advertisements attacking Patrick for his advocacy on behalf of Benjamin LaGuer, a convicted rapist who continues to maintain his innocence. Lost in much of the back and forth has been a consideration of Healey’s credentials and the plans she has laid out. Healey’s campaign has drafted a 50-point plan with specific proposals on everything from increasing the legislature’s transparency...
...fact, the issue has spread statewide across Colorado after an initiative in Denver was successful. If the proposal carries in any of the three states, it would push the question of across-the-board legalization to the national forefront. However, many opponents maintain that marijuana is a gateway drug to harder substances that, if pot is legalized, would easily find its way into the hands of minors...
...slack students. But even abuse is likely to be far less than the kind in Eliot’s day. For one thing, we have better students; meritocracy has ensured this. For another, we have mitigating factors, like the concentration system which developed after Eliot, to ensure that students maintain a degree of academic expertise. The goal, as Eliot put it, was to ignore what he called “the stupid sons of the rich” and focus on the people who might actually benefit from the use of free will...
...Friday. The government has banned nearly half a million of its own officials from using their cars during the summit and taken other measures to keep Beijing's usually clogged streets clear, ordered schools to close early on two critical days, and deployed some 800,000 security personnel to maintain order. The summit is expected to draw some 1,500 African politicians, businessmen and journalists (including 48 heads of state) in a gala climax to years of work by Beijing in nurturing its ties with Africa...