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...necessary to remember the formula of F. Scott Fitzgerald: he said the sign of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to retain two mutually contradictory ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to function. The two mutually contradictory but simultaneously valid ideas involved here are these...
...there are good reasons why the legislature and not the courts should set the national policy on abortion. Abortion is, as Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence Tribe put, it,. a "clash of absolutes." In previous eras, the conflict between two valid and irreconcilable principles was recognized as part of human political life and called tragedy. Nowadays, we act as if every problem had a solution. But appeals to abstract principle, such as the Court uses in its decisions are not they way to resolve a tragic conflict, whose very force derives from the army of principles arrayed on both...
...tobacco industry, predictably, attacked the report, arguing that it unfairly took tobacco's effects on those who smoke and extrapolated to those who don't. The authors counter that the link is valid, but said they would bolster their arguments in the final report, due within a few months, as requested by the board...
...important part of the theory, however, still seems valid. It holds that as additional gas falls into the black hole, it is compressed and heated. This process creates positrons, one form of the strange stuff known as antimatter; as the positrons are flung out into space, they eventually collide with interstellar clouds. Result: enormous explosions...
Worries about the reliability of Russia's historic course change are valid. Huge Russian garrison armies continue to intimidate the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union seven months after the collapse of the old system. "The Russians are acting to keep these former republics in their orbit," a frustrated Azerbaijani diplomat complained in Washington two weeks ago. To the Moldovans, Latvians (and other Balts) and Georgians rattled by these "foreign" troops, it is little comfort that the unwelcome visitors are now Russian rather than Soviet...