Word: defendable
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...Rush Limbaugh has the right to choose his battles as he sees fit. Considering the fact that Jim Brown can call (Ohio State Athletic Director) Andy Geiger a "slave master" and no one in the media even blinks an eye, I don't blame Rush for declining to defend his opinions. Gregg D. Colahan Columbus, Ohio...
...Montt to sell his quasi-delusional version of the local paramilitary squads he helped form, which terrorized the countryside until the civil war ended in 1996. "I did nothing that can be considered a crime against humanity," he says. "In '82, we finally got people to organize themselves, defend themselves, take account of their dignity." The frg has pushed long overdue programs for the vast rural poor, but the frg-led government (headed by current President Alfonso Portillo, who is barred by law from another term) is tainted by scandals, including an alleged $44 million bilking of the federal social...
...officer in the armed forces and die in Korea, he is old enough to be left alone with a girl after dark,” he maintained. But administrators continued to cling to the old ways. More than 10 years later, one dean wrote in to the Bulletin to defend the policy and condemn those corrupt students who did not follow it: “fornication must also be understood as an offense punishable by the University on the same grounds as thievery, cheating, and lying.” Sex was a crime...
Throughout his life, Said was forced to defend his background—particularly in the face of criticism for his strong support for Palestinian nationalism despite his birth on what is now considered Israeli soil...
...this reason, HLS should join the suit—seizing the opportunity to defend its anti-discrimination policy against the egregious violations of the Solomon Amendment. In a statement issued in response to the lawsuit, HLS Dean Elena Kagan called the military’s policy on homosexuals “terribly wrong in depriving gay men and lesbians of the opportunity to serve their country,” and commended the organizations that brought the suit. But Kagan did not reveal why HLS had not signed on as well, and while HLS has voiced its opposition to the policy...