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...N.R.A.'s favorite strategy in harrying the agency is to publicize individual cases of alleged ATF abuses, in the process ignoring the thousands of investigations that conform even to the N.R.A.'s own anticrime platform. In 1994 ATF recommended 10,000 defendants for prosecution, of whom 47% were previously convicted felons. The bureau's critics also sidestep the fact that on the same day as the Waco raid, an ATF investigator, working with a New York City bomb-squad detective, found the vital shard of evidence that broke the World Trade Center bombing case. Agents from the bureau's office...
...undergo a complete reformation that includes specific programs directed towards analytical thinking or to be scrapped entirely. We believe that the second possibility is far more plausible. Finding and pursuing a uniform vision of analytical thinking could certainly help students, but how could so many professors be forced to conform to such an ideal? Those who tech well and help students to think do so without any goading or instruction from...
...discriminatory for a college program to strive to conform to the athletic demands of its students? Should a program that fields teams in all sports, if that structure violates proportionality, be viewed as discriminatory? Should programs like Harvard's, that offer nearly all the sports played in America, carry larger rosters on its women's teams to compensate for the inclusion of sports available only to men? Do we need to do away with football and wrestling teams on the grounds that they throw off the balance...
...rarely if ever mentioned in the classroom. Is Harvard indeed the liberal arts school that it professes to be? Does it teach its students the vast and diverse richness of ideas? Or has Harvard become the bastion of a dogmatic school of thought where a thinker has to conform in order to penetrate the thick walls of the ivory tower...
...excuses for the parochialism of the philosophy department is that just about all philosophy done in academia today is analytic. But Harvard, one of the world's leading institutions, should live up to its name and lead, not conform...