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Nearly 30 students met to brainstorm ways for the IOP to use its clout to combat the widespread youth apathy they described as a national political crisis—a shift they said would not strain the IOP’s student and financial resources...
Perhaps the crowning irony of the whole Vaux affair is that anyone who has taken Social Analysis 34—as I have—knows that Vaux takes great pains to combat the common misconception that Ebonics is some sort of ghetto patois that is “inferior” to English...
...legitimate channels for political discourse, Arabs have suffered from what Queen Rania of Jordan calls a "hope gap." For some, that gap has been filled by a passionate commitment to a superfundamentalist strain of Islam, one that visits no sanction against indiscriminate violence in its name. To hope to combat the threat from such violence, it is not enough to toughen up the defense of the American homeland. What is needed, rather, is a Wilsonian project to assist the development of peace, democracy and prosperity in the Middle East. And that is what Bush has promised...
That is why conscription in wartime is justified. We violate the freedom of individuals by drafting them into combat, risking their lives--suspending, in effect, their right to life and liberty, to say nothing of the pursuit of happiness--in the name of the nation...
...themselves, bringing with them both awe and terror. Fires and floods, tornadoes and droughts--all provide startling images that remind us of the power of the natural world. By comparison, our own efforts can seem puny: a railroad buckles, houses cower before an oncoming storm, fishermen desperately try to combat a flood in torrent. In the night sky, a light show beyond the wildest dreams of human engineers makes us primeval once more, gazing to the heavens with the same kind of wonder that the earliest of our kind must once have felt...