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From the exquisitely small to the unreasonably vast: guests have left notches on the bedposts of the 3-m-by-3.5-m Great Bed of Ware since 1590. Now it is ready for a good night's sleep with bedding made from period fabric...
...last Wednesday night Mullah Fazil, Taliban commander of northern Afghanistan, leader of the 13,000-strong Kunduz garrison and deputy of supreme leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, drove into Dostum's mud-walled fortress to talk surrender. The two men and armed aides shared vast plates of qabeli, the Afghan staple of rice and mutton, and bowls of pistachios, to break the Ramadan fast. "They were laughing and chatting," commander Mohammad Anwar Qureishi, one of the Alliance leaders present, told TIME, "and hours before, they had wanted to kill each other...
...time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering the vast network of predators trained to sweep young girls off the streets and into the simmering sex industry. Authorities are waking up to the problem, though they're stumped on how to attack it. And for proudly middle-class Japan, a larger question looms: What kind of generation spends its formative years...
About 40 Lee-Fernandez supporters packed the Leverett House Junior Common Room to listen to speeches, eat pizza, and prepare orange signs promising a “livelier Harvard.” The signs, alluding to the ticket’s vast accumulated experience on the council, billed Lee and Fernandez “proven leaders...
This is not a slippery slope argument. Cloning embryos only to kill them is not wrong because it might lead to infanticide. It is wrong in and of itself, because it establishes a vast and invisible class of human beings who will be manufactured, dissected and slaughtered in the hopes of extending our own, safely non-embryonic lives. It is wrong because it is barbaric, brutal and inhuman. It is wrong for all the reasons that murder is wrong and more—and should be just as illegal...