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...writes, her opinion bolstered by the collection of 250 eloquent, if sometimes syrupy, love letters from which she quotes liberally. "The clock is striking midnight and I must go to bed," Edith wrote in the spring of 1915 during their intense courtship. "A fond and very tender kiss my precious Woodrow before we put out the light--and I feel your dear arms fold around...
...started as just a few dozen cells. None of us would be here without that stage of development. If those cells aren't precious, then we aren't either. If it's O.K. to experiment on human embryos, then where do you draw the line? Will the next experiment be on demented older patients in nursing homes to better understand the pathology of aging and develop new treatments? MIKE MCINTYRE, M.D. Santa Cruz, Calif...
...words will be said, and their impact will be no different if the U.S. is not there to hear them. Nor does the Bush administration possess such moral weight on the international stage that its absence could challenge the legitimacy of the conference. In case nobody noticed, there are precious few countries out there these days looking to the U.S.for moral leadership...
...threat to the very notion of public education. In some school districts, so many parents are pulling their children out to teach them at home that the districts are bleeding millions of dollars in per-pupil funding. Aside from money, the drain of families is eroding something more precious: public confidence in the schools...
...ground have created "Popular Resistance Committees" in which they've forged a common front with the major Islamist groups and leftist factions. This grassroots "government of national unity" has no truck with internationally-brokered cease-fires; its objective is to wage war on the occupation. And that gives Arafat precious little room to maneuver. In July, when Gaza PA security operative Mousa Arafat had some local Hamas militants arrested, he found his home surrounded by armed men from Fatah, and Islamist and leftist groups - the standoff ended only after he agreed to release the men and undertook to cease...