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Scientists don't pretend to know when that will happen, but some science observers fear it will be soon. The first infant clone could come squalling into the world within seven years according to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. If he's right, science had better get its ethical house in order quickly. In calendar terms, seven years from now is a good way off; in scientific terms, it's tomorrow afternoon...
...replying to register my disappointment with the inaccuracy of Rachel Barenbaum's op-ed on Ebonics. I do not pretend to speak for supporters of Ebonics, I am only writing as one supporter of Ebonics. With few exceptions, Ms. Barenbaum's entire analysis is completely incorrect. First, her worry that Ebonics will remove social fluidity and drive races and classes further apart is groundless. She seems to think that proponents of Ebonics want it to be taught to African-American students in classrooms across the country. On the contrary, Ebonics, as it currently stands, is going to be taught...
...Sling Blade" doesn't pretend for a moment not to know where it is going, but the heart of the film lies not so much in what happens as in why. Sometimes, the reasons are stirring: the Bible-born compassion Karl has for lonely Frank cannot tolerate the cruelty of the Herod-like Doyle. His inevitable act of violence is, at least in part, a religious mercy mission. Other reasons are less convincing: Does a story arc this simple need back-story effluvia like buried infants, failed bar bands, an attempt by John Ritter (yes, the John Ritter) to play...
Call me old-fashioned, but I think if someone says "hi" to you, some form of response is required. Instead, it seems that in Harvard language, "hello" is translated as "avert your eyes as quickly as possible and pretend you can't hear...
Unlike other venerable Cambridge establishments like the Tasty, Mr. Bartley's Burger Cottage and Keezer's Classic Clothing, all taking shoppers on a mystical voyage to the 1950s, Ko's dealership does not pretend to sell history...