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...make their wishes known influence what happens. It would be nice to be able to elect a President who would just run the country without any future involvement from us, but in a democracy, participation is the price we pay to ensure our continued freedom and way of life. Robert Hanlon, Chelmsford, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...Despite Ted and Caroline's endorsement of Obama, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Kerry Kennedy chose to endorse Clinton. Don't their endorsements merit the same attention as Ted and Caroline's? Your pro-Obama bias is unmistakable. Kate Erskine, Austin, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

...credit two scrupulous professors for making the case that skittish politicians won't. In their new book, Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, Princeton's Robert George and the University of South Carolina's Christopher Tollefsen argue for treating the embryo as inviolable. Their defense, less theological than biological, is that the embryo is a whole, living member of the human species in its earliest stage of development, not just a potential one or a part of one--and if destroyed, that particular individual has perished. From that conviction arise their rules for both research and reproduction: Don't create...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wanted: Someone to Play God | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

Earlier this month, Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Michael Smith announced that Athletic Director Robert Scalise would assume additional duties as Interim Executive Dean...

Author: By Karan Lodha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GET A LODHA THIS: 'Dean' Scalise Spurns JVers | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

During the 1936 presidential campaign, the Chicago Tribune, under its archconservative owner, Colonel Robert McCormick, wholeheartedly endorsed the candidacy of the Republican Alf Landon. The paper was so vehemently anti-F.D.R. that 10 days before the election, switchboard operators at the newspaper answered the phone by saying "Hello. Chicago Tribune. Only 10 days left to save the American way of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Should Newspapers Still Be Taking Sides? | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

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