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...even had to draw a circle around his face to point him out. That photo goes nowhere near making the case that Bush and Abramoff were close; it makes the case that TIME was desperate for any picture that included the two. If a picture is worth a thousand words, that one says TIME has no sense of credibility...
...have learned a tough lesson, and it has been a lot tougher for those tens of thousands of dead, innocent Iraqis and several thousand killed and injured American soldiers than for a few humiliated pundits. The correct response to that is not more spin but a real sense of shame and sorrow that so many have died because of errors made by their superiors, and by writers like me. All this is true, and it needs to be faced. But it is also true that we are where we are. And true that there was no easy alternative three years...
That assessment will be tested more rigorously when researchers compare Kennewick Man's skull with databases of several thousand other skulls, both modern and ancient. But provisionally, at least, the evidence fits in with a revolutionary new picture that over the past decade has utterly transformed anthropologists' long-held theories about the colonization of the Americas...
...fellow students over honest and open debate reflects Harvard’s deep isolation from the rest of the world. In the real world, the beliefs that folks like Dewey espouse have real victims. Queer individuals continue to face discrimination and violence because of their orientation. Each year, several thousand Americans are victims of hate crimes because of their sexual orientation. It does not help that student leaders at our country’s best-known university refer to those who wish to change this unfortunate status quo as tools of the Antichrist. As Harvard students, we have a responsibility...
...author remembers. 'The diary of Anne Frank was about as far as anyone wanted to venture into the dark.' Night, finally published in the U.S. in 1960, drew them far deeper, into an abyss that was appalling to contemplate and impossible to ignore. It was as if a thousand tongues had suddenly become unstuck ... It was Wiesel who brought the term Holocaust out of scholarly usage into common parlance...