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Twenty percent of respondents agreed that many of those who have HIV/AIDS behaved immorally and deserve the disease (Table 4).
In an accompanying editorial, the ASSAnine.org editors said the author's views, "while offensive to some, deserve the utmost in thoughtful discussion" and announced that the next nine issues of the publication would be devoted entirely to debating Charles' thesis.
Subsidies for solar power and energy conservation likewise deserve the ax (energy taxes would do the job far more efficiently, if the job needs doing); or, they could migrate to Interior.
When you read your New York Times Magazine this Sunday (or Saturday, if you live in New York), you will learn about a raging controversy (ok, minor dispute) in the literary world: Does former Knopf fiction editor Gordon Lish deserve credit for author Raymond Carver's success?
But here, too, he may deserve the benefit of the doubt.