Word: retractions
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...questionable sense of modesty when Watson explains how he and Crick, a dropout physicist, managed to beat the world-renowned chemist Linus Pauling to the double helix. Watson said that it was really a simple problem: ?If it were complicated, I wouldn?t have gotten it.? He refused to retract his somewhat churlish portrait of his rival, the British crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, in his gossipy book The Double Helix, saying that she blew her chances of cracking the puzzle by refusing to cooperate with her savvy King?s College co-worker Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately shared a Nobel with Watson...
...trying to censor Pappin, but then plays fast and loose with the exact identity of these opponents, potentially leading the reader to believe that the BGLTSA may advocate such censorship. This implication is simply false. The BGLTSA has not gone on record to ask that Pappin retract his statements, nor have we criticized The Crimson for printing Pappin’s letter (Op-ed, “Secret Court Rightly Punished Immorality”, Dec. 9). It is irresponsible for Smith to make this position anything other than crystal-clear...
Conley said Lawrence’s wife then panicked and called the police, but shortly afterwards tried to retract her report...
...from the map. His article’s proposal is clear and unequivocal: the automatic and wholesale destruction of entire Palestinian villages will be an appropriate response—and an effective disincentive—to acts of terrorism. If he regrets having made that argument, he ought to retract it openly. Anyone who doubts that “knocking down a few buildings” grossly misrepresents what Dershowitz has proposed should read his article...
...count Bush out on this one. He first called for "regime change" in Iraq in the 2000 campaign. He did not visibly budge from that goal last week: it's one of those vows that becomes harder to retract every time he repeats it. Yet with so many stars in motion, Bush has little choice but to slow down and start organizing the coalition against Saddam, inside his own Administration first...