Word: compelling
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Most Harvard students are already aware of the library’s more salient shortcomings: the place is heated like a poinsettia nursery and the reading rooms prematurely compel students into the very cubicles that will erode their souls after their emigration to the office. More subtle drawbacks include an Escherian array of staircases, and the Language Resource Center, the only place on this continent to still rely heavily on cassette tapes...
...Jack Bauer-esque terrorist standoff, is it ethical to torture a horse if it would compel a terrorist to reveal the location of a ticking bomb and save thousands of lives? At the April 24 “Facing Animals” colloquium, this scenario is presented as one of many to explore the controversial nuances of ethical animal treatment. “I think our intuitions provide clear direction. We ought to torture the horse,” says Patricia Herzog, panelist and author. Not all panelists agree: Martha C. Nussbaum, a professor of law and ethics...
...environment. Education, according the most recent Gallup data, is a second-tier issue, tied for sixth place with national security, terrorism and Social Security. But some powerful forces are about to unleash a $60 million effort to move it up on the nation's agenda and to compel the candidates to talk about fixing U.S. schools...
Will Congress grant Monica Goodling immunity from prosecution in order to compel her to testify about the Bush Administration's firing late last year of eight U.S. Attorneys...
...Legal experts say it is only after exhausting those alternative sources of information that the Congressional committees would decide whether or not to compel Goodling's testimony, a step that involves several additional hurdles. To begin with, an immunity offer - presumably from the Senate or House Judiciary Committees - would require a two-thirds vote of those committees. That would mean Republicans as well as Democrats would have to support the move, hardly a given. However, Republicans might have a difficult time standing in the way of Goodling's testimony if it were portrayed by Democrats as essential part...