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...just gives one time to do some things during the day, even if it only takes a phone call or answering letters or whatever it may be or meeting ad hoc with someone--things that used to be done at night or on weekends" the president says...
...tick you off for a number of reasons, make you laugh (listen for the planting trees in Golan Heights joke) and maybe shed some tears When it originally opened in New York two years ago, one woman found the play so moving that she look out an ad in the Times in an effort to raise money to keep the production afloat for as long as possible. If nothing else, The Twilight of the Golds is a gripping story, important and timeless, it seems, with each day that passes...
Moreover, the assertion that minority students receive a "totally free ride" is equally ad hominem and groundless in fact. Many minority students arrive at Harvard having already secured outside funding. Having successfully competed for and won national competitions, these students, like other fellowship winners, are a financial boon to their departments as well as to the University. Had Mansfield bothered to inquire which minority students received Harvard funding and which students had outside sources, he would have been forced to acknowledge the groundlessness of this generalization. Based on hasty generalizations and factual inaccuracies, Mansfield's claims are neither interested...
...with Professor Mansfield's public statements. A fearless and robust discussion of affirmative action would feature vigorous disagreements and sustained criticism. Given the variety of perspectives and breadth of political commitments within the Harvard community, this would be welcome indeed. But when disagreements assume the form of ad hominem arguments by tenured faculty toward graduate students' qualifications, the discussion is no longer principled disagreement but, rather, personal attack. Without evidence or credible justification, such accusations amount to little more than ideologically-charged assaults upon individuals within minority groups. The intellectual competence of tenured faculty is virtually unassailable, but as graduate...
Perhaps no one will find a single strategic concept or a template to fit all situations. "I think it's very unlikely," says Powell. "I think that as these situations arise they will be dealt with on an ad hoc basis and in the politics of the time." That means the government will have to argue each case on its own merits, as it must for Bosnian intervention...