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...accounts for the largest dollar increase of any domestic agency. Likewise, the reason why NCLB is being attacked is not because something went terribly wrong with the implementation of the bill—on the contrary, it’s working exactly as planned, coercing states (with however much disregard for local hardships) to educate children better or forego federal dollars, an idea that the NEA has consistently opposed...
...philosophers clamored to refute Singer’s compelling arguments for extending moral consideration to animals, but today, few would seriously argue that animals are completely without moral status. There simply aren’t any plausible ethical arguments for treating sentient animals like garbage, but many people still disregard animal suffering whenever avoiding it would inconvenience them in any way. According to the unreflective PETA-bashing that appears in the media, just about anything that PETA does is “over the top,” and it’s apparently so obviously absurd to compare...
...sport - and their coaches nurture it. But some players have trouble toning it down when the siren blows. Footballers want to make the most ferocious tackles, regardless of cost. Yet the same instinct can drive them to sink the most booze and seduce the most alluring women with similar disregard for consequences...
With a friendly eye to his future success, Kavulla should be alerted that he may be picking up a bad habit from Limbaugh: a disregard for factual accuracy. He charges me with contributing to grade inflation, but the average grade in my most recent large lecture course, Religion 1528, “Globalization and Human Values,” was identical to the mean for my department and well below the Harvard humanities average. The Office for Undergraduate Education periodically sends out a graph of this information, which is publicly available...
...European and American leaders know they need to make sure their spies don't become laws unto themselves, fixated on their own orthodoxies, or get too intimate with their political masters. But tinkering with secrecy laws or government machinery cannot cure the problem revealed when people are willing to disregard their secrecy pledges to become whistle-blowers. In democracies, at least, intelligence agencies depend on a shared public belief that their cause is just, even if their methods are sometimes unsavory. Blair never convinced a lot of people in Britain that the Iraq war was just - and those who resent...