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...professors’ brief took no position on FAIR’s argument that the Solomon Amendment breaches law schools’ free-speech rights. Instead, the professors argued that the government has unlawfully given the military a “unique privilege” to disregard any school policies that hinder its recruiting efforts...
...Western values should be deprivileged because of their worldwide diffusion. From this point of view, studying the West is really about understanding the basis of a global culture that many feel is emerging. The West won, and so a firm grounding in its culture and values is necessary. This argument, however, can be strung too far. Its one thing for someone to say that the Western tradition is responsible for the primacy today of principles like democracy, liberty, and freedom. Its another to make a normative judgment and say that these principles are somehow better than other cultures values...
...that without the cap, illicit money could enter the local industry. "Would you want funds that have terrorist linkages to enter the media?" asks M.J. Akbar, one of India's most respected journalists and editor in chief of the Asian Age newspaper. Critics don't think much of that argument. Many feel that the real reason the cap stays at 26% is that India's powerful newspaper barons want it that way. "Entrenched monopoly newspaper houses have been making this allegation as a way to keep out potential competition," says Ansari...
...suggest to him, however, that evil has no race. These “white oppressors,” as he calls them, were as evil as their black counterparts who committed atrocities on their victims. However, his keenness on picking up observations that suits his argument that blacks have an obsession with a “Blame the Whitey” attitude suggests that he only saw what he wanted to see in the festival...
...Chertoff suggested reporters were exaggerating. "If you talk to someone and you get a rumor or you get someone's anecdotal version of something," he said, "I think it's dangerous to extrapolate it to all over the place." Demonstrating the kind of tenacious dedication to a line of argument that made him a successful Mob prosecutor, Chertoff reprised the same theme last week in a briefing with House members on Capitol Hill, insisting that the federal response had been far better than advertised. In essence, he was telling politicians to believe the Administration rather than their own eyes. Some...