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...discipline. Harvard’s Dubois Institute, by virtue of the overwhelming talent and prestige of the department, as well as the media coverage garnered every time there is any tension between the department and the larger university, is in a particularly powerful position to answer these challenges and defend the discipline against renewed criticisms of its legitimacy as an academic discipline and its relevance in the larger world...
...always greater than correcting what went wrong four years before. This month alone, Bush’s campaign found a new way to combine public and party funding to circumvent the law restricting its spending, forced Kerry (for the hundredth time) to step on his own message and defend a “pattern of flip-flops,” and produced the single most memorable advertisement of the year—footage of Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, and sailing “whichever way the wind blows” on the issues...
...freewheeling question-and-answer session following the justice’s prepared remarks, an African-American graduate student challenged Scalia to defend the constitutionality of racial profiling...
...when I considered myself supremely cool for owning the book Is Our Children Learning?, when “subliminable” and “wings take dream” made for a satisfactory criticism of our alleged president. Not anymore. These days, I will be the first to defend George Bush’s command of rhetoric and verbal manipulation. His words are, after all, a large part of why he currently appears to hold the lead in the presidential race. I don’t mock that sort of thing...
...Saddam Hussein, we saw a threat... And I faced the kind of decision...no president would ask for, but must be prepared to make: Do I forget the lessons of September 11 and take the word of a madman, or do I take action to defend our country...