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...open a heavy, metal-reinforced door leading to the balcony outside the master bedroom. The Peruvians whispered their warnings to the others, including Bolivian Ambassador Jorge Gumucio Granier. The news startled Gumucio, who instantly remembered that the guerrillas had practiced more than 20 times how they would react to a raid--by tossing grenades into the rooms the hostages occupied. Gumucio did not remember later how many minutes he waited for the attack to begin, but he said, "To me it was an eternity." Juan Julio Wicht, a Jesuit priest who had stayed on in the residence despite an offer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOW THEY DID IT | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...conservative Roman Catholic, I had a preconceived idea about how I would react to your report on DeGeneres and others who live a gay life-style. However, my reading of the superbly objective article, coupled with the knowledge that God showers limitless love equally on all humankind, made me realize that obligations are placed on us to offer more love to all God's creations and try to understand the uniqueness God intended. HENRY T. DOHERTY Miami...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 5, 1997 | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

...complete misunderstanding of sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual use of "mother fucking" on the front page.) Nonetheless, I feel that your reporter, or at least an editor should have taken more care with the victim of such a disaster and aimed for a more empathetic story, rather than treating the event as a spectacle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Doesn't Report With Compassion | 4/18/1997 | See Source »

...therapy strategically splices foreign DNA--which direct the assembly of specific proteins--into the cells of certain tissues. Researchers hope that when these proteins are expressed, they will allow the body's normal metabolic and immune systems to react in lethal fashion, either killing the disease or fixing the defect in the original gene...

Author: By Elisheva A. Lambert, | Title: Plans to Move Gene Therapy to New Plateau | 4/15/1997 | See Source »

Clearly, this proposal is not currently mainstream, nor is there any indication that it is swimming thither. But we should not dismiss its prospective import, nor should we lose any time in pointing out its fundamental flaws. We should not react to undesirable trends in the rulings of the Supreme Court by advancing proposals which would undermine the basic fabric of American democracy. As Hamilton wrote, our Republic is and must be based on the conviction that "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: A Visiting Justice | 3/8/1997 | See Source »

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