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William P. Moynahan '99 was elected vice-chair and eight committee chairs were also chosen...
This year's 32 scholars were chosen from a group of 990 applicants from 314 colleges and universities in the United States...
This model is fundamentally an elitist one, one that misunderstands and degrades the content of what those outside the "chosen" circle have to say. It is even untenable as an elitist model: since no person's arguments can be free of personal interest, and no one is capable of fully conceiving some objectively defined version of the common good, Cotton is effectively calling for the establishment of an elite whose membership would consist of the empty set. Moreover, the very idea that there exists some singular and objective idea of the common good is contradictory to the idea of democratic...
...suicide rates among young gays may be quadruple those of heterosexual teens. In September, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops urged parents of gay children to demonstrate love for their sons and daughters and to recognize that "generally, homosexual orientation is experienced as a given, not as something freely chosen." The bishops made clear, however, that they believe homosexual sex is wrong. There is, of course, some evidence that homosexuality is something of a fad among young people. On a few college campuses, the term "gay until graduation" is used derisively to describe those who experiment with...
...Japan Inc. model, which has been adopted to varying degrees across East Asia, relies on the body politic's accepting the dictates of a meritocracy chosen from society's best and brightest. When the technocrats decreed that the economy needed vast amounts of capital to invest in development, the citizens did not protest, even when cajoled into saving upwards of a fifth of their incomes. On this ocean of funds, the economic mandarins launched one industrial battleship after another, directing banks to back companies in industries that offered the most potential for growth. Profits be damned too--market share...