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Smith closes his piece with what he must regard as a novel suggestion: “Why not have two tours—one to wow the weekend tourists, and another to give applicants meaningful information about the school?” Well, in fact, we do. The tour run through the Information Office, which is perhaps the one Smith attended, is for tourists, concentrating on Harvard’s history and it buildings. The Admissions Office tour, for prospective students and their families, focuses on “contemporary campus and academic life,” the nitty-gritty...
...concern for protecting human life regardless of its features. History teaches us that maintaining this vision demands a vigilant effort to recognize the humanity of others when it is not readily apparent to us, whether because of race, gender, religion, physical or mental disability or social position. In this regard the issue of embryonic stem cell research is one of the most difficult challenges for our nation’s moral conscience. Americans are called to protect a life which does not look human even though it may entail the continued suffering of those with recognizably human faces...
...their windows for the first frost. I’ve made snow angels in front of Faneuil Hall, made canolis in the North End, made wishes in park fountains just before dark. I have made memories in this city on my own time and in my own way without regard to whether I have seen or done what the Best of Boston dutifully advises...
...that regard, the experience of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo cult is instructive. The group, which carried out an infamous nerve-gas attack in the Tokyo subways in 1995, had tried to work up an anthrax weapon. Aum had plenty of cash, recruited scientists into its ranks and cultivated biological-warfare experts in the former Soviet Union. But in the end, it never could pull off a successful assault using anthrax...
...Qaeda's attack on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killed a dozen Americans and more than 250 Africans. You have defined American civilians as legitimate targets, but presumably the Africans were innocent bystanders. Do you regard 20 "innocents" for each "target" an acceptable rate of "collateral damage...