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Little wonder no one knows what U.S. policy toward China is these days. At the same time that Clinton Administration officials are threatening to curtail trade by revoking Beijing's most-favored-nation status because of China's dismal human-rights record, the Administration is quietly poised to approve one...
He went on to assert that "under the council's standards, a proper referendum petition should not be packed," a word to which he imputes vaguely sinister undertones, but one which I must confess I still do not understand. Once again, the "council's standards" are a week-old creation...
There is no need to prohibit with sanctions even the ugliest of words. After all, they are just words. And selfcensorship and discretion normally prevent most intelligent students from uttering hateful words. When they do not, these students usually suffer rebuke and loss of respect from others. In an intellectual...
But, unbeknownst to Charlie, the science Club had a more sinister Motive. Its members were being used, without their consent, for experiments involving radioactive food they ingested. Neither the school's director, nor the Harvard-affiliated physician leading the tests, ever told the students or their parents that radiation was...
A. Davis: Basically it was a garden-variety transaction. That's what we started out with. It was an intelligent, common-sense merger. Nothing convoluted about it. Nothing sinister. Nothing clandestine.