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...recent famines and its international status as a pariah. The 1953 armistice ending the three-year Korean War allows just 35 soldiers on each side of the zone, permits soldiers to carry only sidearms and prohibits gunfire. Pyongyang has declared the armistice meaningless and has repeatedly demonstrated its scorn for the pact. In early April, 100 North Korean soldiers entered the demilitarized zone on three consecutive nights. North Korea also ejected foreign cease-fire observers from its territory and closed its offices in the truce village of Panmunjom. After the April incursions, President Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young...
...society, but we shouldn't wish to punish someone solely because the law says their actions should be punished. To avoid a circular justification of law, the two students must have done something that was wrong in and of itself. To figure out if the students deserve sympathy or scorn, we need to look further than coarse categorizations of drugs and drug dealers. Were they disruptive influences in the community, whose own lives had been ruined by their drug use and were reaping huge profits selling drugs to otherwise clean students, making so much money they needed to use violence...
...fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia at a Baptist prayer breakfast in Mississippi...
...scenario of events. Pool temperatures in the real world seldom exceed lukewarm levels. The engineers, technicians and managers at Millstone have dedicated their careers to coaxing energy from the atom because they believe in the inherent safety and environmental benefits of nuclear power. They deserve your acclaim, not your scorn. KRIS P. SINGH, President and CEO Holtec International Cherry Hill, New Jersey...
...know Harvard gives tenure to "the best in the world," but we have seen too many brilliant scholars and teachers leave after not being offered tenure to believe that this system is foolproof. We also scorn the first statistic Knowles offers about junior faculty members. In the same study, he writes, "Ninety percent of eligible assistant professors (123 of 136) were promoted to associate professor or directly to tenure." Being promoted to an associate professor and being given tenure are far from the same thing; Knowles, a chemist, should know better than to deceive so blatantly by conflating statistics. Even...