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They're cool. So cool they can wear shades on the job and tote shiny gurns, license-free--and even use them at thier discretion, no questions asked. Heck, they can even obliterate people's memories with the blink of a red light. Who wouldn't want their job? Who else could they be but the Men in Black ("MiB" for short: beats "ID4" any day, doesn't it?), "protecting the Earth from the scum of the universe"? Who else could they be but Tommy Lee Jones '69 and Will Smith in one of the most hyped movies...
American are internationally famous for thier emphasis on rights. IT's as if we invented them, and to a certain extent we did. Justification in our legal system hangs for less on whether an action is good or bad in itself than on whether the agent had a right to act that way. But for such a system to function, it sems crucial that citizens know and be able to defend their liberties. As I spend hours a day listening to people complain of injustice, I am struck by simultaneously-low voter turnout, daily grumbling overheard on the train about...
...attempts to draw parallels between smokers and homosexuals he displays his moral contempt rather than his intelligence. This comparison has no place within a reasoned debate. To imply that gays and lesbians actively choose to be criticized and discriminated against is folly. But whether or not they choose thier sexual orientation, that should not compel any state to condemn an act of loving between two consenting adults...
...While there always will be questions raised about the usefulness of these kinds of surveys, we're pleased to have...scored so well," said Samuel Thier, chief executive officer of Partners HealthCare System, a partnership that includes the two hospitals. "It is a testament to the hard work and dedication of many individuals throughout the Partners system...
Certainly the next round of cuts will hit meat as well as fat. Thier has vowed to bring the ratio of specialists to primary-care physicians in the two hospitals, currently 8 or 9 to 1, down to 1 to 1, while also reducing the total staff. "We're all going to get killed,'' says a Harvard Medical School executive close to the situation. "Now the primary-care physicians have the specialists by the short hairs...