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...know anything we can do about that," the Pentagon chief conceded, referring to U.S. intelligence reports that Pyongyang may already possess one or two atom bombs. "What we can do something about, though," he added, "is stopping them from building beyond that." Perry's statement is at odds with what President Clinton declared last November when he said that "North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb; we have to be very firm about it." That resolve has apparently been replaced by a recognition that the seepage of nuclear know-how is relentless. After surveying atomic-weapons programs...
...dozen other appealing oversimplifications." You call these oversimplifications? Good Lord! These entirely human capacities not only constitute essential differences between us and the animals but are crucial to understanding the uniquely human predicament. We are, as Shakespeare said, the "paragon of animals" precisely because we possess the capability of using language, creating mathematical concepts, writing music and, above all, perceiving our own immortality. Not to appreciate this fact is to succumb to populist, if not sophomoric, anthropomorphism in which an attempt to raise the status of the lower animals to that of humans manages only to demean the latter...
Basing their beliefs largely on a speculative scientific paper published in 1983 by Dr. Frank Barr, a San Francisco physician, the melanists assert that blacks -- who indeed have more of the skin pigment than other races -- possess superior and supernatural traits that can be ascribed to the magical qualities of neuromelanin, a little-studied substance in the brain. Yet while neuromelanin is markedly different from the skin pigment, the melanists often fail to differentiate between the two and ignore the fact that all humans have similar amounts of neuromelanin. According to the melanists, neuromelanin can convert light and magnetic fields...
...unfortunately, there is much room for inconsistency in what is judged to be "designed or intended" to contribute to the free exchange of ideas. For example, many Black Nationalist speakers who have toured American campuses often spew vitriolic, intolerant speech that certainly possess the first three properties of prohibited speech. Judging from the bitterness, divisiveness and intimidation that these speakers often spawn on the campuses they visit, one would expect their right to speak to be curtailed. Yet, as far as I know, no college has denied racist speakers like Khalid Mohammad the right to speak, claiming that that right...
...wrote a female version of his classic play, The Odd Couple, he had something in mind other than creating more roles for women (commendable as such a goal might be). The implication surely is that a female version would express something that the male version could not, that females possess a unique voice that would make a reworking of the play subtly different. If such was Simon's intent, then he was doomed to failure; if such was not his intent, it is hard to see what the point of this exercise...