Word: defendable
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...expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions, the U.N. complies with Muslim prohibitions against speaking freely about Islam. The freedom to think and express oneself - and even mock authority figures - is the bedrock of Western values, and to defend this freedom, it appears necessary to disband the U.N. and develop other international and regional organizations. Jiti Khanna Vancouver Cutting Our Losses Leslie Gelb's viewpoint "The Dominoes That Did Not Fall" [Oct. 23] argued that, after the U.S. defeat in Vietnam, "the dominoes did not fall." Well, they didn...
Still, the question is worth consideration, at the very least because our silence concedes the point. Since Plato exiled poets from his mythical Republic, humanists have exerted themselves to defend and expound the merits of poetry. Until the 19th century, the consensus was that literature was proper for its moral utility and its ability to impart ethical lessons through delightful language. This line of thought has gone out of vogue, both for aesthetic reasons and because it has become abundantly clear that there is nothing particularly ennobling about high culture itself. After all, Alex from “A Clockwork...
...Harvard struck first as sophomore Steve Rolecek turned a pass at the top of the circle from junior Mike Taylor into the Crimson’s second goal of the night. In the 10th minute, however, Clarkson’s Shawn Weller stripped the puck from his defender and took on Richter to even the score at two goals apiece. Captain Nick Dodge then put his team ahead for good with six minutes left in the middle frame, when he stripped the puck from Kevin Du during a Crimson power play and found the back of the net to score...
...been destroyed by this Republican-dominated government. Freedom of speech disappeared when Americans who spoke out against Bush's policies were labeled unpatriotic. The right to a fair trial exists only as long as we are not flown to Guant?namo Bay or a secret prison. I can no longer defend my country's policies. I hope the world understands that the Republicans are not representative of all the American people. Christine Buxton Geneva...
...this price because we are aware of the alternative. However sincere the desire of the writers to protect the emotions of rape victims, their call is one we cannot heed. The world has yet to see the act of censorship that was not advanced as an attempt to conserve, defend, or uphold. To paraphrase Justice Stephen G. Breyer, the proper answer to posters you do not like is not fewer posters, it is more. Their article belies a further set of illiberal and unqualified assumptions in its blithe reduction of HRL’s campaign to an attack on rape...