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Physician and leading member of the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics, Axel Kahn, acknowledges there are "several incoherent aspects" to Sébire's attitude towards treatment and demands for an administered death. Still, Kahn isn't sure full disclosure of her case would have changed opinion of her...
But this year, for the first time ever, things went exactly according to plan. It’s like that time on the SAT’s when you got six B’s in a row. Every now and then, the probabilities align the right way, and produce...
Obama carries no baggage. He has no obvious connections to any interest groups or special agendas, and his consistent opposition to involvement in Iraq will also stand him in good stead. He generates excitement and hope. He alone is in a position to chart fair, rational and even-handed policies...
The most important result of the study, according to the authors, is that the insurgent groups are rational actors responding to a perceived decrease in American resolve “rather than groups driven by ideological concerns with little sensitivity to costs.”
The purpose of a documentary—and, some would hold, of art in general—is to make plain the unclear. “Secrecy,” the new documentary from History of Science professor Peter L. Galison ’77 and Visual and Environmental Studies...