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Mailer elsewhere acknowledges that “there are just so many new thoughts you can have,” an argument that any writer is condemned to repeat his central themes...
...light of recent research that has attempted to discredit this argument, many proponents of the current policy have begun to cite privacy as its main purpose...
Opponents of the proportionality standard may argue that it makes no sense to cut men’s programs where there is a high level of interest in order to create women’s programs where interest may be minimal. But as tempting as that argument sounds, it does not reflect reality. According to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), today 150,916 women compete in intercollegiate sports, accounting for 43 percent of college varsity athletes—an increase of more than 403 percent from 1971. These dramatic statistics make it hard to believe that women have...
...This argument was convincing before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, and the database never progressed past its initial planning stages. But when terrorist hijackers were linked to unmonitored student visas, the educational community dropped its opposition to a database of international students...
...heart of the dispute between the camp led by the U.S. and Britain and the group led by France, Russia and Germany is a sharply divergent view of the nature and scale of any threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and therefore also over the appropriate penalties. There is little argument in the Security Council over whether or not Baghdad is in breach of many of its disarmament obligations. But while President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair insist that Saddam is hell-bent on stockpiling non-conventional weapons and will inevitably share them with al-Qaeda, the antiwar Europeans...