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...controversial quotation. He acknowledges that the words “were considered offensive” by Muslims but he does not say that the words were, in fact, offensive. One would expect this type of apology from a politician, not from a spiritual leader who is supposed to possess more than an ounce of honesty and sincerity...
...unconscionable, for example, that five years after Sept. 11, MBTA police officers still don’t possess the adequate technology to communicate with local fire departments or ambulance services and will not be able to do so for at least 18 more months. In addition to better communications equipment, Barrios’ report calls for the hiring of 100 more MBTA police officers, for full-scale subway terrorism drills, and for better allocation of federal homeland security money to help local communities outside of Boston proper to secure their T infrastructure. All are necessary measures to improve the safety...
...think it has been developed just to kill human beings. It is not in the service of human beings. For that reason, last year in my address to the U.N. General Assembly, I suggested that a committee should be set up in order to disarm all the countries that possess nuclear weapons...
...children in the future. In fact, the human body will often make the same choice on its own, albeit for purely physical reasons—if a woman is malnourished, the uterine lining will often reabsorb the embryo instead of letting it develop, sensing that the body does not possess the physical resources to allow it to develop to term...
...appetites there is something beyond the powers of political commentary or literary criticism to convey. It is much more than a conventional ambition, a presidential dream. Lots of men entertain that fantasy. What drives him is an unacknowledged anarchy of the soul. There is no reason why Willie must possess aristocratic Anne Stanton (Kate Winslet), daughter of the state's last great Governor and the woman Burden has impotently loved his entire life. It is just that she is there--blond, vulnerable and an all-too-symbolic representative of the class he can never join but has to screw...