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Although a Faculty of Arts and Sciences report about the center, circulated in January, stipulates that “the Institute…proposes to address the complex social, ethical and religious questions that have arisen as stem cell research has advanced,” Harvard plans to proceed anyway with research which many Americans find morally repugnant. The center, then, is largely paying lip-service to ethical objections. Actually proceeding with controversial research is a very interesting way to “address” peoples’ concerns. Indeed, the University has shown no reluctance to shelve ethical...
...Hong Kong. "Because the Taiwan situation makes China's leaders nervous," says Joseph Cheng, a professor of political science at Hong Kong's City University, "there will be very little room for tolerance or magnanimity toward Hong Kong's political reforms." For now, Beijing seems undecided about how to proceed. But if it continues to misread Hong Kong as it has Taiwan, China may become one country with two large headaches...
...Prosecutors calculated they couldn't persuade every member of a jury that her leak wasn't an act of conscience they should excuse - and now the government must review its obviously ineffective Official Secrets Act, whose draconian provisions against divulging classified information are not doing much good. As investigations proceed on both sides of the Atlantic about intelligence that was faulty and perhaps deliberately skewed, both European and American leaders know they need to make sure their spies don't become laws unto themselves, fixated on their own orthodoxies, or get too intimate with their political masters. But tinkering with...
...It’s bad timing,” she said. “[But] the department head wanted to make sure that the faculty knew what was going on, and that there was consensus among the group that this is the way they should proceed...
...proceed to the golden filigreed doors of the Omni Parker House Hotel for our second course. According to local lore, the Boston Crème Pie was created for the Parker House’s opening, its chocolate covering an innovation which brought chocolate to the masses. Though we are sitting less than 20 feet away from the table where JFK proposed to Jackie, in the building where he announced his various candidacies, we don’t give a damn about history. It’s time to bring...