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Memories of the Simpson investigation may haunt local police, but the public fascination with this case seems to stem from recollections of Susan Smith's tearful televised pleas to an alleged carjacker to return the two sons she had already drowned in a South Carolina lake. Bereaved relatives have become suspects in the court of public opinion. Such before-the-evidence perceptions overshadow the loss of a precious child. Bill McReynolds, a retired journalism professor at the University of Colorado, has played Santa Claus for the past three years at the Ramseys' Christmas party for neighborhood kids. He remembers...
...purpose. The educational and research efforts that Harvard sponsors around the globe are making this world a better place. Harvard grants allow low-income students to attend the College with no parental contribution. They sponsor groundbreaking medical research (which, among other things, has made Harvard the premier place for stem-cell research in the U.S.), and they sponsor initiatives to solve longstanding health, poverty, and cultural issues. Every cent that Harvard spends to enhance its public image by matching donations to disaster relief materially disadvantages these efforts—efforts which, ultimately, have more value than relief itself...
...Mason fellow, Johnson-Sirleaf earned a Masters in Public Administration in 1971. She then served as Liberia’s finance minister, where she worked to stem corruption in the Liberian government, according to Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert I. Rotberg. Johnson-Sirleaf later became a senior loan officer at the World Bank, and directed the Africa Bureau of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP...
...attempt to sidestep the moral dilemma surrounding embryonic stem cell research, United States scientists announced two new ways for generating embryonic stem cells this weekend, neither of which would require the destruction of human embryos.But although some have called the new findings key discoveries that would satisfy both scientists and religious activists, many are still skeptical.These two methods, both published in Nature magazine, reflect the burgeoning interest of U.S. researchers in developing alternative ways to create embryonic stem cell lines without having to destroy an embryo. Current federal restrictions limit embryonic stem cell research to cell lines created before August...
...should thank my lucky stars, but the fact that it takes three years to learn what parents have been saying for decades speaks poorly about the rationality of Harvard’s best and brightest. At the very least, the growing swarm of economics concentrators should be able to stem the staying-up-late stalemate. One of the fundamental tenets of their “science” is that humans—eventually—can learn from their mistakes. I hope my children can learn from mine. John N. Hastrup ’06 is a government concentrator...