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...others dismiss the survey, saying its findings reflect its designers’ conservative views. ISI’s site says the institute aims to imbue college students with “a better understanding of the values and institutions that sustain a free and virtuous society.” The institute’s president, T. Kenneth Cribb Jr., served as President Ronald Reagan’s top domestic policy adviser...
...that kid” in your humanities section. He crowds out other discussion with big, overreaching generalizations. He challenges the TF whenever possible. His vocabulary is expansive, but he is given to the occasional malapropism. Everyone despises him, but he is intelligent enough that no one can dismiss him out of hand. (It should be noted that he can also be a she.) For the first few meetings of a section, a single domineering, pretentious personality can positively ruin discussion. But then something remarkable starts happening. His presence introduces such a dysfunctional level of frustration that others begin to overcome...
...Thus, my concerns about Zionism are motivated by neither pro-Arab nor anti-Jewish bias, but by the fear that those who dismiss all anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism—or, equally often, as Jewish self-hatred—risk creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. If Israel’s defenders convince the world that all legitimately Jewish people are Zionists and that Jewish people are uniform in their opinions about Israel and its policies, then the convinced will conclude that condemning Israel or its policies requires them to hate Jewish people...
...past five years media deregulation has meant that dozens of independent TV stations have exploded on the scene, ready and all too willing to exploit the slightest misdemeanor of those in power. Musharraf has already felt the bite of this newly unleashed press: Exhaustive coverage of his attempts to dismiss a popular Supreme Court justice contributed significantly to his plunge in popularity...
...Pakistan does not have a tradition of leaders who put the nation above self. During Sharif's time in office, he tested six nuclear devices, dismissed a Supreme Court chief justice (as Musharraf tried to do), and promoted Islamic law. The press was often, and brutally, stopped from reporting on sensitive matters. Under Sharif's rule, Pakistan and India nearly erupted into nuclear war over Kashmir, when Musharraf, as head of the army, sent troops into Indian-held territory at Kargil. (Sharif maintains that Musharraf acted on his own, and that he subsequently tried to dismiss Musharraf - the act that...