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...bill proposes to take $750 away from groups that aren’t getting funded,” said Park, who is also a Crimson editor. “If the termbill argument is valid then we don’t have any kind of extra money to be giving away...
While that is a valid point, certain kinds of attacks would kill far fewer people in Casper than they would in Boston, owing to population density. And as it stands, the funding system is vulnerable to opportunism. While money for homeland security has grown, regular state and federal funding for police and fire operations continues to be cut as both state legislatures and the Bush Administration try to control growing budget deficits. In order to get the homeland-security money, states and localities must frame their needs in terms of terrorism. Wyoming Governor Dave Freudenthal defends his state's allotment...
...film The Passion of the Christ only highlights a dangerous trend among many religious Americans: to read the Bible as accurate history. Recent polls show that 60 percent believe biblical accounts as historical facts. More Americans believe the Virgin Birth occurred than that evolution is scientifically valid. The Pope is reported to have said about The Passion that “it is as it was,” despite previous Vatican criticism of literalists who read the Bible as history. Here is what the Pontifical Biblical Commission wrote to Pope John Paul II in 1993: “Fundamentalism...
...full Hispanic culture, but they are not immigrants because their families have lived in the same cities in Texas for the past 500 years. Very few Anglo-Protestant can say that much or claim residence in the United States for that long. Huntington’s literature has some valid claims; as a professor, he has indeed contributed to the scholarship on immigration. But his recent writings are not only offensive—they’re inaccurate...
...Harvard wants unabashedly to pursue stem cell research with all of the ethical baggage that carries, it should say without equivocation why it does not find the religious, ethical and moral objections to this kind of research to be valid. Harvard’s behavior to date, however, suggests that it is already confident in its answers to moral questions—namely, that such questions are not important and need not be seriously considered before proceeding—and that it merely needs to convince Americans of the intrinsic rightness of its position by presenting them with a fait...