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...that one by again: The United States doesn't want to try a man suspected of a bomb attack that killed Americans - and they're sending him home?! Unless a federal court blocks his deportation, accused Saudi terrorist Hani al-Sayegh will be sent back to Riyadh Wednesday. The move comes after Sayegh, a Saudi dissident trained in Iran, stopped cooperating with an FBI probe into the 1996 attack on Khobar Towers in Dahran, Saudi Arabia, in which 19 U.S. military personnel were killed. Of course, going home could be more dangerous than staying in Washington. But the Justice Department...
...President Khatami, who has clearly demonstrated a commitment to end state terrorism and normalize Iran?s relations with the rest of the world. Given Washington?s desire to strengthen his reformist government against its hard-line opponents, the U.S. would be unlikely to take military action against Iran unless there were fresh acts of terrorism." Better that the unfettered and somewhat crude Saudi legal system handle the matter than risk upsetting a relatively docile Iran...
Memory may be found to be affected by genes, but no gene has been found to have even a small causative relationship with normal "intelligence." Intelligence has never been successfully defined or measured, unless one refers to the highly specialized, arbitrary, narrowly defined and largely learned skills measured by American-designed IQ tests. (Where, for example, are skills in second-language acquisition or the physics of a thrown object, both essential skills in our history?) Why would genetic intelligence have evolved strictly along the lines of IQ tests? Since most human family lines have become literate only in this century...
...third category of risk takers ought to be encouraged to switch to less dangerous pursuits unless they are single and have no children, lovers or friends. The often heard statement "It's my life, and I'll do whatever I want with it" simply does not apply to those who do not conform to the above requirements. ALFONSO M. COLLA Rome...
...without it, I'm unemployable. First of all, irony is much more fun than earnestness. Earnestness is thanking God after scoring a touchdown, while irony is having 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife. Earnestness is what you hide behind when you have nothing to say. Unless you hide behind irony, which is much cooler...