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...couched in language that was far from clear,” Epps said. “When the vote was happening I remained silent—I didn’t say ‘yay’ and I didn’t say ‘nay...
...only to keep them under control and the international community off the Pentagon's back while it ponders what to do with its captives? And could the war on terror - lately expanded with the departure of U.S. military trainers to Yemen - benefit from a little partisan nay-saying...
...came into my life with such a terrific force, you gripped my soul, my nerves, my thought, my flesh, until all was blotted out, all else was silenced. Theories, considerations, principles, consistency, friends, nay even pride and self-respect. Only one thing remained, a terrible hunger for your love, an insatiable thirst for it. That explains my clinging, my holding on to you, I who never clung to anyone. That explains my agony when every woman would possess you at the exclusion of myself. Oh, please, don’t give me your assurances, I do not believe in them...
Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls, students and faculty, alumni and parents, lend me your ears, for I have come upon an easy and obvious solution to one of the most pressing issues facing Harvard today—nay, facing all of undergraduate education. This absolutely burning exigency, this situation which threatens to topple everything that is good and pure about the rearing of students, is of course—I shudder even to mention the term—grade inflation...
...implanted in the womb and then brought to term. But “therapeutic cloning,” which involves creating embryos in a petri dish, letting them grow just long enough to extract stem cells, and then killing them, is being hailed as a morally acceptable—nay, laudable—step forward for what is inevitably referred to as “scientific progress...