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...would be all too easy for Faust to become backseat president instead of following Pusey’s example. We hope that Faust, even in the face of adversity, will have the courage to defend the right decision even when it is unpopular and the wisdom to recognize when an unpopular decision is wrong...
Kinsley is right to defend partisanship, but he misses the higher ground. In U.S. politics, the winner takes all, ideologues and hacks supplant statesmen, and reputation and access can be bought. One needs to look no further than lobbyist-lined K Street to understand...
...Pentagon took the false-impression route: he is so sorry that some people might have inexplicably got the impression that he meant what he obviously did mean when he said what he said. The Grey's Anatomy actor, Isaiah Washington, chose the therapeutic option. He can neither "defend nor explain" what he said, and "there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul," and on and on. "Can I stop now?" you can almost hear him pleading to his bosses at ABC. "No!" they reply with a crack of the whip. "More groveling! Get sorrier...
...revolt called The Bar Kokhba Syndrome, and in it stated a warning against national projects that have about them an aspect of grandiose self-destruction. ''Our choice,'' he says, ''is not between good and bad. That is easy. Our choice is between bad and worse. Israel cannot defend itself if half its population is the enemy. The Arabs understand that if there is no settlement, then there will be hell, for them and for us.'' This is the real danger, Harkabi believes: ''If an individual claims that he can live only provided that he sits on the shoulders of another...
...said junior forward John Baumann, who hit his only three field-goal attempts of the first half. “That’s basketball. We were fortunate to make our shots and we did a lot of other good things, such as defend.” On the defensive end, Columbia forced turnovers and rebounded missed Crimson shots to set up its fast break. The Lions were able to hit threes in transition, and also got open looks from deep with ball movement in their halfcourt set. “We feel that the way Harvard plays, it plays...