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...cryptically-worded statement, Harvard suggested that Grant had somehow lied on her application by not disclosing her past. But both juvenile justice specialists and the man who sentenced her--Judge Westbrook--said Grant had every right not to disclose the crime. The student herself said in a statement: "I would like to think that the promise of the juvenile justice system--a fresh start--would be upheld by institutions such as the universities to which I have applied...
...course, Adams is not populated only by artists. There is still a wide diversity of people within Adams and even within the artistic community. It is demeaning to imply that all artists are somehow the same, or that they should be denied the right to live together simply because of a common bond. The current system provides for a good mixture of diversity and character to each house; each house has some uniqueness to it, but it is still home to a diverse range of students...
...when the researchers retested the child at 11 months of age, the virus was gone. That seemed so wildly improbable that the scientists conducted more tests and still found nothing. When they re-analyzed blood from the earlier tests, though, the virus was still there. Could the samples have somehow become tainted with HIV in the testing lab? Such contamination has been suspected in other cases in which infections have disappeared. But no, the virus from both samples was genetically identical, making the contamination notion highly unlikely...
Chabon's chapters aren't unreadable, but they are unstrung: a series of funny scenes about not writing a novel that somehow don't hang together as a novel. Chabon seems to be winking at friends: Look, here's a ridiculous bit in which Tripp gets the dean of students pregnant. And here's Miss Sloviak, the transvestite, and here's Tripp's car with a dead dog and a tuba in the trunk. Some of this is worth a smile, some a raised eyebrow, but let's agree with Chabon's publisher that he has actually written his third...
...sins in the name of their own Rightist agenda. It is one thing to point out that Robertson is not an anti-Semite plain and simple, and is a generous supporter of the State of Israel. It is another thing altogether to assume that his pro-Israel sentiments somehow excuse his anti-Semitic excesses...