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...admiring piece about Graham Greene and his commitment to understand every position and even sympathize with an enemy [Essay, Feb. 20], Pico Iyer reveals both the implications and the presuppositions of the modern relativist view. It is no surprise that placing mercy over justice would lead a man to uphold someone like Soviet double agent Kim Philby, an operative of the bloodiest dictatorship in history, and receive no moral condemnation for it. What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything...
Instead of mandating certain standards all departments must uphold, the EPC functions more as a sounding board which allows one department to look at innovations in another, according to Knowles...
...vote, the Supreme Court decided to uphold a federal law against child pornography, throwing out a lower court's argument that the law impinges upon the First Amendment. But the high court also ruled that under the law defendants must have been aware that the material in question depicted minors -- a caveat that could undermine the law and make it harder for prosecutors to convict...
...State Department and the National Security Council, both of which thought Perry had agreed to something quite different at the White House meeting. "Perry stepped in a cesspool with that confederation idea," fumed a top official. "That's a code word for annexation. Our policy is to uphold certain basic principles," including Bosnia's sovereignty. Christopher called in reporters to deny any change in U.S. policy. National Security Adviser Anthony Lake delivered a speech in Princeton, New Jersey, siding with State and repudiating any notion of Serb confederation, though he admitted it was "up to the parties to agree...
BOSTON--Frustrating the state's efforts to certify five ballot questions from the November election, an appeals court judge yesterday delayed his ruling on whether to uphold a restraining order blocking enactment of the state referenda results...