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...third suggestion, the Overpowering Assumption, I think, is best. But not for the reasons he suggests--that the assumption is so cosmic that it might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted;" we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret...
Rebel spokesmen were quick to reject the bid as a "deception," noting that Najibullah had not indicated whether the 115,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan would stay in their barracks. Said Mohammed Nabi Mohammedi, spokesman for the Islamic Alliance of Afghan Mujahedin: "We should have direct negotiations with the Soviets, and they should stop hiding behind the puppets in Kabul...
Rather than carry out the court's order, Peretz resigned. On a radio show he then charged that Reform Jews were "leading the nation of Israel to destruction." Responded Rabbi Alexander Schindler, the North American Reform leader: "I reject his comments as a perversion of the truth. He is an extremist who wears blinders." Said another Reform spokesman, Richard Hirsch: "If Israel is the spiritual home of all Jews, we must be made to feel at home in Israel...
...among factors that motivated students to take to the streets. No doubt, on the margin, both factors could have played a role. But they cannot constitute even partially sufficient--not to mention necessary--explanation. Without much better information than those quoted in the piece, I venture two reasons to reject this explanation...
...implant fetal cells into adults? Fetal cells, Gale explains, are "immunologically naive": during the early stages of pregnancy, they have not yet developed all the antigens, or distinctive surface proteins, that allow the recipient's immune system to identify and reject them. Another advantage of fetal cells is that they are generally not mature enough to cause graft-vs.-host disease, which can occur when the tissues of a transplant recipient are attacked by implanted adult cells. Also, fetal nerve cells, unlike adult cells, can regenerate and thus have the potential to repair a damaged brain or spinal cord. "These...