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...most salient difference between the Shepard case and this one, however, is that while Shepard's murderers were driven to kill by hate, the boy's rape and death was a sex crime. It was repulsive, unconscionable - and the predictable pastime of perverted criminals. It was the kind of depraved act that happens with even more regularity against young females, and, indeed, if the victim had been a 13-year-old girl, the story would probably never have gotten beyond Benton County, much less Arkansas. (There is, of course, a double standard there.) Matthew Shepard died not because...
...could see how a lot of women may be disappointed by her dropping out," said Kevin A. Shapiro '00, a former editor of the Salient, a conservative magazine on campus. "But I think the appeal of the party goes beyond just Elizabeth Dole...
...testing and information, while bringing incredible new therapeutic and diagnostic tools, also raises significant social and ethical concerns. Who will have access to genetic information and in what applications will it be used? Should health insurers use genetic information to issue policies? What about employers? In absence of any salient federal legislation on the issue, some 34 state legislatures nationwide have carefully debated these issues and implemented genetic information laws of varying strength. Still, residents of the remaining states--including Massachusetts--remain unprotected from misuse of genetic information...
...examine what the Republican Party would be losing if they let Pat Buchanan leave through a few of his most recent and salient points that have put him in the newspapers. He has claimed that "non-Jewish whites.... get the shaft" at Harvard where Jews and Asians represent disproportionate percentages of the student body compared to national levels. In his recently published book "A Republic, Not an Empire," Buchanan questions America's involvement in World War II. It makes you wonder, what are the Republican Party and Bush so afraid of losing...
...writer is a former editor of the Salient...