Finally we can all get back to the business of running the country! The tawdry saga of Clinton's impeachment is over. The news media, nonpartisan as it always is, impressed upon us that the Senate's vote marked "The End" of a messy affair that should never have happened. What a relief that the man who admitted lying to his constituents can now turn his attention back to his interns and, we hope, to "the people's business." But there is at least one thing for which the American people can really be thankful: we might finally be able to turn on the television set again without seeing the smiling face of Harvard's Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law, Alan Dershowitz.
Hans
Küng
Hans Küng's "Global Ethic": too ethical for
International
Relations
Kissinger, Bismarck, Metternich, Richelieu.
To Dr. Hans Küng, Professor of Theology at the University of
Tubingen
in Germany and Harvard's 1999 Paul Tillich lecturer, these august names
speak failure. Küng is a crusader for the "Global Ethic"; to
him,
men who practice diplomacy in the shadows stand in the way of world
peace.
They lie, they war, and worst of all, they think of national interests
before human rights.
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Let
My People Own Guns
"Do we have any weapons? Any guns?"
Charlton
Heston's character asks in Planet of the Apes. One of the apes replies
that they have the very best, but that they "won't need them."
Charlton Heston takes aim at the Left
Ross Douthat, Deputy Editor
"I'm glad to hear it,"
Heston
says. "I want one anyway."
Thirty years later,
Charlton
Heston still wants a gun, and he's not afraid to tell everyone about it.
Recently elected President of the National Rifle Association, he's not
afraid to talk about the joys of gun-owning in Hollywood, arguably the
most liberal and anti-gun city in the country. And on February 16 he was
willing to come to Cambridge, arguably the second most anti-gun city in
the country, to spread his message of Second Amendment absolutism