Word: allowing
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...should, as Seton claims, a political council allow council representatives to introduce any sort of superfluous political legislation. Embracing political issues doesn't mean bills can lack a clear objective, methodology and justification. Thus, while the council's recent decision to endorse an outside advocacy organization's same-sex marriage resolution touched on an important and relevant issue, it did nothing other than simply declare a political stance. A political council can affect real change only when it ties larger issues to the specific Harvard-related policy...
...suggested reforms would institute mandatory contributions to the system from both employers and employees and provide "old-age insurance" to guarantee care for the elderly and "emergency insurance" to allow those hit with a sudden illness to afford expensive care...
...real war cannot be as abstract as the one we're waging now. If the U.S. continues to fight with its stronger arm tied behind its back, it won't win this war. We might exhaust Milosevic's resistance and he might allow himself to be governed by international justice, but we won't truly win the war. When we devote our military to Kosovo, we have to devote all our passions and energies to the fight. Only by fighting with conviction will we win the war and protect the Kosovar's "autonomy" and "peace...
Idealism is useful inasmuch as it forces us to define our values and love them enough to fight for them. But it cannot be an excuse to sidestep the grim realities of war. We cannot allow our idealism to replace our vigor. By promising to fight we have to fight with our whole hearts...
...take NATO ground forces to defeat Milosevic? Plenty of American pundits and former U.S. officials urged Clinton to rethink NATO's reliance on air power alone, suggesting that only "boots on the ground" can rescue the faltering campaign. "We're in a war, and we need to allow our military to do what is necessary to prevail," says Frank Carlucci, Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration. "If it means troops on the ground, then...