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...menu and that the new system should offer a substantially expanded array of departmental courses. Indeed, under the Core, students are too often forced to take classes that are poorly taught, that do not interest them, and that are overly large and impersonal. There is no reason why the bedrock principle that a more open system is preferable should not be applied to the Core while the Faculty considers, votes on, and fully implements the new system, a project that will likely take years...
Executive Order 13199 asserted that the OFBCI it created would “value the bedrock principles of pluralism, nondiscrimination, evenhandedness, and neutrality,” an essential safeguard against the sort of theocratic repression the government condemns in the Middle East. Except that didn’t work out, either: David Kuo cites one OFBCI grant analyst who admitted, “When I saw one of those non-Christian groups on the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...
...parody. And he's given to using precious archaisms--sometimes you wish he would just say "with his arms held out" instead of "with his arms outheld." (Outheld?) But none of this really matters. The Road is a wildly powerful and disturbing book that exposes whatever black bedrock lies beneath grief and horror. Disaster has never felt more physically and spiritually real...
...finally realized why the divorce flap was so upsetting. Relationships meant everything to her, and I had shortchanged her on candor. The open heart she had brought to Walter Reed deserved better. I apologized in a couple of long phone calls to California, promising full disclosure as the bedrock of our relationship from here...
...they have a voice, an opinion. Burning a Bible or a Torah may certainly catch my attention; I’ll even tolerate it. Yet the real basis of religious toleration isn’t really free speech, but mutual respect. Civil discourse, when it actually happens, is the bedrock of our society. Once religious groups start arguing based on reason instead of justifying their actions with the pretext of “faith,” they’ll earn credibility and I’ll force myself to listen. But until then, they’ll remain...