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...argument boils down to which effect of not having ROTC is larger—the cost to national security or the benefit of appeasing some students’ and Faculty members’ equality-driven sensibilities...
Since it was released Dec. 19, the Katz report has brought much attention to Harvard’s practice of outsourcing. Presumably, Harvard uses outsourcing as a way to avoid paying above-market wages and benefits to its employees. There is no denying that the argument against this practice has a certain appeal. That is, if one accepts the premise that exceptionally wealthy institutions like Harvard ought to share some of that wealth with their workers, it follows that institutions like Harvard should not use outsourcing as a way to circumvent that obligation. There are plenty of good arguments both...
...Some argue there's nothing wrong with the Cheney-Enron interactions, even if the worst-case scenario bears out. This argument is, essentially, so what if Enron lobbied Cheney to change the wording in the administration's energy policy in a way that helps Enron? That's what lobbyists are for, right? "That's what politics are all about," says Steve Milner, managing partner for Squar Milner, a CPA and financial advisory firm in Newport Beach. "The problem is when there's a quid pro quo: I give you money in direct exchange for what I want." Proving that...
...argument's sake, let's concede the point that everyone in the White House has been at such pains to make: No one in the Bush Administration lifted a finger to save Enron from collapse. But that doesn't mean the $6 million in campaign contributions the company and its executives gave to politicians over the past 12 years should be written off as a bad investment. For most of that time, Enron's Washington friends did pretty much whatever the company wanted...
...anger, really. I never had any doubt for an instant what the right thing was to do, what we had to do and get others to do. When 4,000 people are murdered in New York in the middle of the day, I honestly don't understand the argument of people who say we shouldn't have done anything about...