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...staff, in its haste to apply strict principles of non-discrimination to the clubs, has forgotten another principle--toleration. The funny thing about toleration is that it must apply even to those we don't particularly want to tolerate...
...violence in the streets only worsened the next day. Hampered by strict rules of nonengagement, hundreds of American soldiers found themselves watching helplessly as Haiti's blue-uniformed police and khaki-clad army troops waded into the capital's crowds, swinging metal nightsticks and indiscriminately firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge...
...globe to join vastly different lives. A Canadian tourist who changes her itinerary in the mountains of southeastern Europe is captured by tribal Ghegs and put to work. Village routines induce a hypnotic adjustment that virtually erases her former self. The ways of these isolated Christians are bloody and strict. A woman can dodge her tribal fate as breeder and toiler only by renouncing sex, living alone and dressing in men's clothing. In this way the captive Canadian avoids being sold into a Muslim marriage...
...lift its 15-year ban on embryo research -- a suggestion that's sure to anger the religious right. The panel stated that embryos "do not have the same moral status as infants and children," and that scientists should be allowed to conduct federally funded experiments on them -- albeit with strict controls. One of these, the panel recommends, is to limit research to embryos that are no older than 14 days, the time when a fetus begins to develop a nervous system. The NIH is expected to make a final decision this December. Today's announcement was nothing less than testing...
...Connor said storage in Dunster House worked well because he followed "strict rules." Still, Dunster students were allowed to take boxes out of storage without house personnel checking to whom they belonged...