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These words would have been reassuring, had they not been used to defend policies that were torture in all but name...
...Fortunately, we peons have our cunning UC advocates to defend our bureaucratic birthright. “The Faculty has placed in [UC-appointed committee members] the responsibility for recommending to it policies related to student life and house life, respectively,” declared SAC Chair Michael R. Ragalie ’09 in an e-mail to the UC earlier this week. “Not having voting members and not taking votes masks that responsibility by incentivizing individuals to abscond from their duties in the interest of allowing the ‘consensus’ to move forward...
...name of the important principle of nondiscrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. No Harvard money may support any organization that excludes homosexuals—even the US armed forces, which protect the freedoms we have to debate this dilemma. And so MIT gives our students the opportunity to defend us, while giving Harvard the opportunity to feel morally pure...
...libertarian, and I am totally dependent on a smoothly functioning society. I need bread from the baker, meat from the butcher and a network of family and friends for support and fellowship. All of this occurs spontaneously, without government managing it. Yes, a limited government is needed to defend liberty and property, but this only creates the framework in which free people create society. Kinsley equates government with society, and this is what separates statists from libertarians. Mark Gibb, LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS...
...Despite the Cold War ending nearly two decades ago, my Service is still expending resources to defend the U.K. against unreconstructed attempts by Russia, China and others, to spy on us," Evans complained. "A number of countries continue to devote considerable time and energy trying to steal our sensitive technology on civilian and military projects, and trying to obtain political and economic intelligence at our expense. It is a matter of some disappointment to me that I still have to devote significant amounts of equipment, money and staff to countering this threat. They are resources which I would far rather...