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In a narrow sense, this was the ultimate tribute to a respected teammate. In a broader sense, however, this was a summation of everything that is wholesome about today's college squash tour.
In the end, no better argument is provided for the immorality of genetic engineering than the revulsion it inspires. Kass, indeed, titles his essay "The Wisdom of Repugnance" and attacks genetic engineering as evil because it is unsettling. But moral theory should be more than a summation of the circumstances...
Ford officed first across the hall from John Kennedy, already a two-year House veteran. "I could tell from the start," claims Ford, "that the House was only a way station for him." Fourteen years later, Ford would get a Sunday call from Lyndon Johnson, beating down Ford's protests...
Exotica, which takes place in the forbidden world of an erotic dance club and also brings together an eclectic group of characters, was celebrated by most critics as Egoyan's final maturation into one of the industry's foremost independent filmmakers. Although Egoyan keeps a special place in his heart...
Then he rereads the entire paragraph, which gives one chills, partly for Darwin's understatement. What the author deemed "interesting to contemplate" was nothing less than the world's biological structure, which he (and others) had discovered, and which now, at the end of his monumental study, he quietly celebrated...