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Everyone sensible wants to build a better world, and everyone acknowledges that a keystone of its construction is ensuring that states like Iraq do not possess weapons of mass destruction. But the debate at the Security Council last week demonstrated a gulf in conceptions of how that world might best be built. For the Americans, the British and their supporters, the reports by the U.N. weapons inspectors Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei confirmed that Iraq had still not complied with U.N. resolutions that it disarm. "We cannot allow this process to be endlessly strung out," said Secretary of State Colin...
...urge the Senate to confirm Mr. Estrada; actually, all the Democrats have to do is to allow the nomination to come to a vote. The Senate should assert its constitutional power against presidential nominations for judicial office, and arguably even with a filibuster, when the nominee does not possess the high qualifications for federal judicial office. Mr. Estrada’s record in the Solicitor General’s Office suggests that he is no ideologue. When high ability and good character are both present in a judicial appointment, the differences in the way judges interpret the law are likely...
...them. It doesn’t take more than a rudimentary understanding of morality to realize that this type of theft is wrong, but apparently the Secret Service—the branch of the Treasury Department responsible for investigating counterfeiting and fraud—doesn’t possess even this threshold understanding. Instead of punishing or condemning these gluttons, our government treats them like victims...
...while biologists freely used the word gene to mean the "smallest unit of genetic information," they didn't have a clue what a gene actually is. And with far more self-assurance than a newly minted 22-year-old Ph.D. had any right to possess, Watson decided he would figure it out. His first stop was Copenhagen for a postdoctoral fellowship with the biochemist Herman Kalckar, who was studying DNA's chemical properties. The fellowship ended in a hurry. "Herman," writes Watson in The Double Helix, "did not stimulate me in the slightest." Even worse, he decided Kalckar's research...
...technicalities aside, the weekend’s play should at the very least provide a preview for the Crimson’s Ivy League championship match against Yale on Feb. 19. And if all goes right, Harvard may possess its second Howe Cup in three years by Sunday night...