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Third, according to Greenfield, Lifland rejected the Pentagon’s argument that FAIR loses its standing because its membership remains anonymous...
...reality, there would be no argument about whether Locke or Hobbes belongs on a syllabus with limited space. Rather, the argument arises between those who believe a work’s merit should determine its inclusion in the curriculum and multiculturalists who clamor for representation of diverse perspectives—much like we observe in Foreign Cultures...
...kept being promised decisions that never happened. There’s no particular argument against [membership in the WRC]—we keep being told that Summers needs more time to think,” Mackinnon said. “We’ve gone through all the steps they’ve required and it seems that Iuliano having to consider it as well is another step tacked...
...argument against the U.S. simply leaving Iraq is based on the notion that to do so would just encourage more terrorism. Hasty retreats from Lebanon in 1985 and Somalia in 1993 are Exhibit A and B in Osama bin Laden's argument that despite its overwhelming military power, the U.S. runs when its nose is bloodied. The converse, however, may also be true: That the continued presence of U.S. occupation forces in Iraq fuels an anti-American insurgency there and swells the ranks of Islamist terror networks worldwide. Or, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld put in his internal Defense Department...
Some have argued that student-judges might jeopardize the confidentiality currently assured by the secrecy of the Ad Board. But as compelling an argument as this may be, it is not warranted. There is no reason why we cannot trust a fellow Harvard student to maintain such standards, yet we feel that we can allow administrators and professors to be trusted. Students on campus who volunteer at hospitals, join the military, work for government agencies, work for lawyers or participate in psychological and/or physical tests or participate in criminal trial juries are entrusted with information that is sometimes much more...