Word: partiality
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...understand that aspects of this city are status-conscious and Manolo Blahnik-obsessed. And I don’t begrudge the HBO tycoons their right to make money off of it. Nor do I begrudge Sarah Jessica Parker and Co. the right to discuss the intersection of relationships and partial lobotomies (in the latest episode, she decides they could go together like “chocolate and peanut butter”). I begrudge the way “Sex and the City” threatens to embody New York City. Yes, it’s glitzy. Yes, its social scene...
Unlike his memoirs it is not nearly as much his draft of history—it is hard to accuse him of partial and selective history-making in a book where he focuses almost exclusively on prescriptions for the future. Except for a section that discusses and dismisses the notion of universal jurisdiction, there is also little to connect the book to the argument offered by Christopher Hitchens, author of the new book The Trial of Henry Kissinger, that Kissinger is a “war criminal...
Contrast this widespread tolerance, if not acceptance, of the mass slaughter of embryos, even among right-to-lifers, with the huge fuss that antiabortion forces have stirred up over the relatively rare practice they insist on calling partial-birth abortions. This campaign emphasizes how recognizably human end-of-term fetuses are. The explicit or implicit argument is that these physical human qualities are at least part of what makes late-term abortions as morally objectionable as killing a postbirth human being. Either this argument is utterly disingenuous or the corollary must be that destruction of a newly conceived embryo...
...There is no question in my mind that the future of heart surgery is in robotics," says Michler, whose team at OSUMC headed up the clinical trials that led this spring to the first Food and Drug Administration approval of a robotic partial-bypass procedure. Originally studied in the late 1950s as a way for Army surgeons to operate remotely on wounded soldiers on the battlefield, robotic surgery is just finding its way into leading medical centers across the U.S. With more than 500,000 heart-bypass operations performed each year in the U.S. alone, surgeons are eager for ways...
...partial mobilization of the Cold War was different from the total commitment of the Second World War, he said, where the government had effectively enlisted the University, calling on all its resources...