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Harvard also needs strong performances from senior guard Mike Beam and sophomore forward Dan Clemente to threaten Penn and Princeton...
...with touches and comments. The Davises complained, but for the next five months found their concerns brushed aside. LaShonda was forced to sit next to the boy for months despite his lewd comments and his attempts to grab her genitals. The principal responded with a lackluster promise to "threaten him a little harder." LaShonda became withdrawn and depressed, and one night her father found a suicide note. Even now, six years later and in 11th grade, his daughter, he says, is still "not the same LaShonda...
...weather a thousand tiny betrayals. What teenage girl has not grimaced, on occasion, at the spectacle of her mother's perceived inadequacies? And that contempt can flow easily, prompted by no more than a gesture of unwanted maternal affection. Nor are mothers above sin, particularly when their daughters threaten to surpass them...
...appropriate go-ahead signals come, the first resulting gene-bettered children will in no sense threaten human civilization. They will be seen as special only by those in their immediate circles, and are likely to pass as unnoticed in later life as the now grownup "test-tube baby" Louise Brown does today. If they grow up healthily gene-bettered, more such children will follow, and they and those whose lives are enriched by their existence will rejoice that science has again improved human life. If, however, the added genetic material fails to work, better procedures must be developed before more...
...Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear weapons, poison gas or biological weapons", Clinton said. "I have no doubt today that, left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again...