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...encouraging underage or binge drinking—or even endorsing drinking at all. The suggestion that the NCAA is expressing an opinion in favor of the products it allows to be advertised is absurd. Although the NCAA is certainly willing and within its rights to ban advertising that conflicts with its core principles, as it has done in the case of hard liquor ads, it does not find such an egregious conflict with beer, which can be drunk responsibly by those of age. We agree with this decision, and hope that Faust and the others protesting it come...
...That is, none at all.The irony is that Senator Obama has been a strong advocate of international intervention in Darfur, where a genocide has been raging since 2003. In 2006, Obama made a passionate defense of the use of the term genocide to describe the conflict. “When 300,000 people have been killed, 2 million displaced, I think that that is the kind of disaster that merits world attention and world action.” These are strong words from a man proposing to end the American military presence in Iraq by the end of next year.By...
...second installment of the Tanner Lecture Series on Human Values was erudite and fast-paced, touching on topics from the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to Abraham Lincoln’s possible sexual orientations...
Each group of speakers has “at least one woman that’s supposed to be on the other side,” Mansfield said, and some of the participants foresee potential conflict...
...debut Pulitzer-winning short story collection “Interpreter of Maladies” and her novel “The Namesake,” Jhumpa Lahiri conceived of the Indian-American family of the 1970s as the product of India and America. These earlier works portrayed intergenerational conflict between Americanized children and their first generation parents, who, while desirous of the educational opportunities life in America afforded, tended to cling to traditional values. But in “Unaccustomed Earth,” Lahiri complicates these relationships. Using a more expansive format for the eight new stories that comprise...