Word: defendable
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...editors: Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s op-ed (“The Revolution at Harvard,” Mar. 3) attempts to defend the pedagogy of her department against charges that basic areas of American history, such as the Revolutionary War, are neglected so that faculty members can teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what?...
...Crimson 30-26 at halftime. But when the two teams returned to the floor, only one seemed able to step up its game. “They lit up,” freshman forward Katie Rollins said. “They definitely came out hard, ready to defend their title.” Dartmouth flourished in the second half, steadily pulling away. The Big Green immediately took control offensively going on a 12-0 run to push its lead to 42-26. Dartmouth guard Angie Soriaga, the game’s leading scorer with 24 points, commanded the surge with...
...tell” rule. “As I have said before, I believe that policy is profoundly wrong—both unwise and unjust—and I look forward to the day when all our students, regardless of sexual orientation, will be able to serve and defend this country in the armed services,” Kagan wrote.Lambda, the Law School’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender student group, thanked Kagan for her support, but also called on Harvard to protect students from discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation...
...pact aimed at ensuring peaceful nuclear development. Through this agreement, the U.S. is tacitly but effectively aiding India, despite its longstanding defiance of the NPT, to develop a better and stronger military nuclear program. Iran and North Korea could not have asked for a better occurrence to defend their respective nuclear ambitions—not to mention the Bush administration’s now-hypocritical stance on Pakistan’s nuclear technologies...
...Which of course is what makes it so politically risky, given an ambivalent public that prefers to restrict abortion than ban it outright. It is almost a mirror image of the challenge faced by abortion-rights activists when they are called upon to defend late-term abortions. Except in cases where the mother?s safety is at risk, late-term abortions have always been controversial because at some point they sidle up too close to infanticide for comfort. Now the South Dakota lawmakers find themselves having to explain why they rejected what have become customary ?special circumstances? like exceptions...