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Tierney’s version of this canard goes this way: “You might expect the Harvard history department to devote a course or two to the American Revolution or the Constitution, but those topics are too mundane. Instead, there’s a course on the diaries of ordinary citizens during the Revolution, and another...that considers the American and Haitian Revolutions as “a continuous sequence of radical challenges to established authority.” It is hard to know which alarms him more—the diaries or the notion that revolutions provoke...
...Simon to make, since he only cites median income data on the 1999 cohort, and neglects to mention that by 2003 average real family incomes of recruits had risen by $1,700, above the national median rather than below. The stunning finding in my mind is not the canard that soldiers are poor, which Simon rightly skewers, but that the military is attracting wealthier enlistees after 9/11 than before. TIMOTHY J. KANE Washington, D.C. January 20, 2006 The writer is the Bradley Fellow in Labor Policy at the Heritage Foundation...
...world's best ski racer, but whatever the result, he laughs it off and maybe has a beer afterward. Or two. In a world where winners get endorsements and losers work for the ski patrol, Miller actually believes in that old Olympic canard that it's playing the game that counts. "Despite all the pressure and the caliber of accomplishment, I still can honestly say it is not all about winning," he told TIME during pre-Olympic training at Colorado's Copper Mountain. The important thing to him is to try to ski well - to improve, to reach...
...games, Johnson notes, impel us to learn because playing them means not just following rules but also discovering what the rules are. And these rules can be staggeringly complicated. Johnson unpacks the nested objectives of just one segment of a Zelda video game with enough detail to bury the canard that it is "passive" entertainment...
...since its start last year, half of whom are innocent women and children. Meanwhile, the attacks in Fallujah alone created over 240,000 refugees. And while President Bush and his apologists often use the “Iraq is better off with Saddam in prison” canard to silence critics, it is difficult to repeat that claim when the same study revealed that the risk of violent death is now 58 times higher than before...