Word: applauded
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Columbia has taken some important and careful steps to examine the situation, and we applaud them for choosing the right approach. Columbia’s provost, Alan Brinkley, has pledged to fully investigate allegations raised in The David Project video. Additionally, the controversy has sparked a critical debate about the appropriate level of bias in an academic department. It is important, as this investigation and debate move forward that all parties involved make the requisite distinction between anti-Semitic bias and anti-Israeli political views—indeed, criticism of Israeli policies does not, in and of itself, constitute anti...
...campaign to stifle the press and opposition. INTERNATIONAL LAW Europe has grown restive with U.S. disdain for treaties and bodies that might make the world safer at the cost of U.S. autonomy, like the Kyoto accords on global warming, the International Criminal Court and a stronger U.N. Europe will applaud if the U.S. Supreme Court continues to upgrade legal standards for prisoners at Guantánamo. Few expect Bush's second term to be as unilateralist as the first. But he will be skeptical of treaties and international law. ASIA China's boom makes it an indispensable economic partner...
...Flatterer. This sycophant is quick to applaud the TF for pointing out the obvious, for discovering a “dialectic,” or “complicating” an argument. “I totally agree with what you just said,” even though she can’t remember what that is exactly...
...While I applaud the author of the opinion piece “While We Were Sleeping...” (Column, Oct. 18) for urging action on a very important and much-neglected situation, he paints a simplistic and inaccurate picture of the tragedy currently taking place in Darfur...
...political climate that has witnessed an anti-progressive backlash in recent years, it is refreshing to find a candidate that has taken reasoned, progressive stances on controversial social issues. Kerry’s politically risky support for same-sex civil unions is admirable, and we applaud his defense of homosexual rights in the recent presidential debates...