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Piercing the beating heart of a fetus and withdrawing half its blood so it will wither and die is murder. This procedure should not be deemed a medical breakthrough. It's a crime...
...Administration not only would leave the legislation's ambiguities unresolved, but would show a disrespect for the law, which is itself corrupting. Since the U.S. has adopted a moral position with regard to foreign bribery, neither the Administration nor Congress can now afford to let the subject wither away without compromising its principles in the process...
Artistic avant-gardes wither in totalitarian regimes, whether of the left or the right. The collective efforts of the constructivists Rodchenko, Lissitzky, Tallin and the rest were only possible, one may surmise, because they did not realize how totalitarian Leninism actually was. Oligarchs, whether collective or single, dislike the very idea of avant-garde art because it creates new elites. As Ortega y Gasset remarked, its first effect is to divide; it splits the audience into those who understand it and those who do not. This cleavage does not necessarily run along political lines, and so it may not conform...
...imagine the delight of the administration if all student protests involved nothing more controversial than a desire to read books into the dawn hours. But one set of issues will not wither away for Harvard or for Bok: the quality of life for minority students here. Since Bok spoke on race relations and minority issues at Commencement last spring, a series of unsettling incidents has occurred...
...others who believe that it heightens the soul's capacity to approach God. For ordinary people, a bit of silence may occasionally seem golden, but what they mostly need is the conversation that keeps them close to others. Those who do not get enough talk tend to wither in spirit...