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...Political Bedfellows Caroline and Senator Edward Kennedy were right on in endorsing Obama [Feb. 11]. Bill Clinton's sustained, unfair and mean-spirited attacks on Obama have got to backfire. The very thought of Bill re-entering the White House is scary. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to forget what he put our country through 10 years ago. I am confident that the American people, in their collective wisdom, will send the most deserving candidate to the White House. Carmen Ho, Foster City, Calif...
...which case all her bullet-point plans will be of no avail. While no one doubts her intellectual gifts, there is a contrived quality about her that is no match for Obama's aura of authenticity. Obama has inspired people to believe they can effect positive change - no mean feat when many people tune out elections because they feel they have no voice in their government. Scott Willett, New York City...
Adopting these rules would mean that America is catching up with Europe, where governments subsidize more of the costs and so control some of the risks. Italy and Germany forbid embryo storage; England limits doctors to implanting two embryos, or three if a woman is over 40. Sweden and Belgium allow only one. Many lawmakers are driven less by moral than medical concerns, for the health of mother and baby and the costs associated with premature and multiple births. Professional associations in the U.S. also favor limits but stress the need to treat each case individually; they recommend a maximum...
...controversies: whether museums should ever acquire, either through purchases or as gifts, antiquities that have no clear record of how and when they came out of the ground. Some museum directors argue they should be able to take in the most important of these. To do otherwise would mean the object disappears into private hands, where it's denied to the public and to specialists for study. Cuno suggests the establishment of an outside advisory panel that could rule on whether an object is so significant that a museum could acquire it even if its papers are not in order...
...Democratic delegates are decided, and an evening caucus. Further clouding matters is that delegates are not awarded proportionally along congressional district lines, but instead are done based on state senate districts, with areas that had higher turnout in recent presidential and gubernatorial elections getting bonus delegates. That could mean that Obama could snag more delegates than expected by doing well in places like inner-city Houston and liberal Austin, while Clinton's supposed advantage with Latinos in South Texas might not provide her with as big as a windfall as she might hope...