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Professors may empathize with their students, and they may wish for the ability to shield the students from the consequences of their actions. But a professor’s role in the lives of students is under certain constraints of fairness, and Faculty members must not take it upon themselves to be the ultimate judge of the rightness of the students’ actions. That’s Someone Else?...
TIME.com: President Bush is pushing ahead with his plan to build a missile defense shield. How far along are we, both from an engineering and from a diplomatic point of view, in the process...
...really possible for our allies or our competitors to critique the system, because there is no system yet. It?s a bit like offering to sell Taiwan diesel-powered subs, which we can't provide because we no longer make them. We're going to sell Europe a missile shield that we don't yet have, and can?t yet say what it will look like...
...Washington's allies and none of its strategic competitors, current and former, are happy with the idea of a missile shield. How will each of them react to the Bush administration pushing ahead? Let?s start with China...
...about the Russians - they have a lot more missiles and warheads, the shield doesn't eliminate their deterrent in the same way, and yet they're strongly opposed...