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...primarily a military solution. The diplomacy recommended by the Iraq Study Group has been rejected by President Bush. Perhaps most startling, the neoconservative architects of the foreign-policy failures of the past six years still influence the President's thinking. Yet I would not expect Kristol to touch upon any of these points, since he is in the vanguard of the neoconservatives. Steven R. Schels Hamburg, New Jersey...
Sherley claims that his motive was not personal gain but a higher purpose: to highlight MIT’s egregious racism. Yet he claimed he would only end the strike upon being granted tenure—a condition sadly not met. The fact that he then extended his protest to include a campaign against racism only weakened his case...
...Officers were dispatched to Holmes Hall to a report of a noise complaint. Upon arrival the officers were informed that another call was made regarding the same location reporting a fight in progress. The officers heard loud shouting coming from the room. The officers observed two individuals engaged in a heated argument. The officers asked the individuals several times to stop yelling. One individual continued to yell after repeated instruction to lower their voice by the officers and other occupants of the building. David Maybury-Lewis, 22, was placed under arrest for disorderly conduct...
...There is, however, a mind-reading machine that certain doctors and nurses can use in cases like Charlene's and Jacob's. Its use is frowned upon by many in administrative positions and specific measures to render these machines useless, most notably long forms, committee meetings and menu-driven care algorithms, are being implemented with increasing ferocity. It is only this machine that can make rational and humane treatment decisions for the suffering though. It is, in fact, only this machine which suffers. See past the ones that beep and blink; the mind remains our most important machine in medicine...
...That February evening, however, Miyamoto was called upon to do something extraordinary. As he helped unlock the bicycle, a passerby rushed into his one-man koban to tell him that a woman was standing on the nearby train tracks. Miyamoto jogged over to the tracks and escorted the woman back to his police box, as she pulled against him and screamed that she wanted to die. When they made it back to the koban, the woman broke free and ran toward the rail crossing. With a train less than a quarter-mile away, Miyamoto leapt onto the tracks and tried...