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While the faculty may deem a course in Foreign Cultures necessary, it is the student's prerogative to decide whether his or her interests might better be served in a history course, for instance, with a similar yet more engaging twist. Moreover, what purpose is served when Government 10: Public & Private--An Introduction to Political Philosophy, shares more than two-thirds of its reading syllabus with Moral Reasoning 50, but fails to qualify as a valid substitution...
...drama in Judge Ito's courtroom began to remind me of nothing so much as an overstuffed 19th century novel, one of those ripping, 800-page doorstops from college, a real cinder block of a narrative. We got cliffhanger after cliffhanger, and more subplots than a contemporary storyteller might deem prudent. And thanks to the lawyers, we even got bigger words than most of us are used to in 1995--just like in Henry James...
...information office we deem to be a critical function and a very appropriate use of the space," Levitan said. "Holyoke Center is a good place for visitors to come and get their bearings...
Apparently, your columnist views black opinion as nearly monolithic and thinks that because Thomas is black, he must represent the views of liberal civil rights organizations. It is demeaning and condescending to try to lump the diverse members of an entire community into one orthodoxy and deem only one view authentic. No one would suggest that Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer must reflect "Jewish views," or that Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony Kennedy must represent "Irish opinions." Moreover, the Supreme Court is not a representative body; its members are appointed for life so that they...
Obviously, any healthy society must deem financial support for children a moral obligation of parenthood. The point, which Gingrich so conveniently glides over, is that in a truly robust society this won't be the only such obligation; the current crisis of the family goes beyond dollars and cents. When journalists note pointedly that Timothy McVeigh was a child of divorce, they aren't suggesting that the attendant financial insecurity is what caused psychological problems...