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Members of the “motley crew that is Ivy-League conservatism” need to defend their ideology against “the liberal center encompassing the majority of the student body and the administration,” Douthat said...

Author: By George T. Fournier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Douthat Reviews Ivy Conservatism | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

...show you ‘This is what we’re going to run, can you stop it?’” Tillman said. “And you basically have to line up and guard, this is how we’re going to defend it and hopefully we defend it well…they’re not trying to trick...

Author: By Christina C. Mcclintock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tussle With Big Green Looms | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Feelings still run deep. Last week, a retired Marine general told the Senate Armed Services Committee that one reason the Dutch military was unable to defend 7,000 innocent Bosnian Muslims from a Serb massacre in Srebrenica in 1995 was that the Netherlands' openly gay troops weakened their military's combat resolve. Senator Carl Levin, the Michigan Democrat who chairs the panel, declared John Sheehan's claim "totally wrong." And, on Thursday, Gates and Mullen scolded Army Lieut. General Benjamin Mixon for publicly opposing the potential lifting of the ban in a recent letter to the independent Stars and Stripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Enforcing 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell': Don't Bother | 3/26/2010 | See Source »

Officials in the church staunchly continue to defend the Pope. They say Benedict has pushed for far greater transparency and penitence than his predecessor, and certainly more than many of the local bishops who should have been the ones managing the individual cases. And so far, each new revelation from Ratzinger's past seems to show more administrative detachment than bad judgment from the future Pope - though that is still a surprising hands-off management style for the man who would earn a reputation as a micromanager as he rose to become the éminence grise in John Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: After U.S. Abuse Revelation, the Vatican Fires Back | 3/25/2010 | See Source »

...brinkmanship is understandable given the political risks of Germany's conceding too soon but that she cannot hold out indefinitely. "It is implausible that Greece could get through the rest of this year unaided," he says. "Ultimately, the Germans will put something on the table. They will always defend the stability of the euro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bailout Showdown: Greece and Germany Raise the Stakes | 3/24/2010 | See Source »

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