Word: ardently
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...framework of international law. It is deeply troubling that an academic like Professor Scott would both eschew objectivity and undercut independent thinking in order to indoctrinate students with anti-American sentiments. Even more unsettling is that she teaches in Australia, one of the United States’ most ardent supporters in the war on terror. This seminar is merely one illustration—a particularly troubling one—of the reflex anti-Americanism I have encountered during my time studying in Australia. Casual conversations amongst students, pointed remarks by professors in lecture, university publications—all suggest...
...citizens of Harvard College, purported football fans and ardent tailgaters, need to do some self-assessment before we take our complaints...
Dawkins and his army have a swarm of articulate theological opponents, of course. But the most ardent of these don't really care very much about science, and an argument in which one party stands immovable on Scripture and the other immobile on the periodic table doesn't get anyone very far. Most Americans occupy the middle ground: we want it all. We want to cheer on science's strides and still humble ourselves on the Sabbath. We want access to both MRIs and miracles. We want debates about issues like stem cells without conceding that the positions...
...criticism we take most seriously. That may be why staff members from two G.O.P. campaigns allegedly posed as sympathetic commentators on message boards about their rivals. In blogs covering the close race between Democratic Senator Robert Menendez and Republican challenger Tom Kean Jr., someone claiming to be "an ardent Democrat" posted comments about being troubled by the business dealings of Menendez. The posts were traced to a computer belonging to a Kean staff member. In New Hampshire, an aide to G.O.P. Congressman Charlie Bass resigned after local media reported that, using the names "IndyNH" and "indienh," he had posted messages...
Finally, all of us, including people of faith and those who are ardent secularists, should be able to recognize the increasingly important discourse of faith, based on commitment to deeply held values and principles, whether Muslim, Christian, or Jewish. In the United States, we should be able to distinguish the discourse of faith from the discourse of citizenship, also based on commitment, but premised on a set of values and principles shared by people of all faiths and none. And we should be able to distinguish both the discourse of faith and citizenship from the critical and deliberative discourse...