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...must respectfully dissent on the grounds that I believe courses focusing on a specific period or event to be extremely valuable. To say certain Core courses' narrowness of scope makes them "ridiculous" not only undermines the importance of major periods such as the French Revolution or the Warren Court, but also suggests that breadth and shallowness are inherently better than depth--an altogether dubious assertion. Learning about an important period offered in the Hist B category of the Core (e.g. America and Vietnam or the Civil War) is imperative to an educated person. It is just a shame...
...whole, we are better off than four years ago," Bronfman said. "There might be some areas of dissent, but you've got to focus on the entire package...
...whole, we are better off than four years ago," Bronfman said. "There might be some areas of dissent, but you've got to focus on the entire package."CrimsonC.R. McFaddenThe 4,320 delegates to the convention reflect America's diversity. Minorities were one-third of the delegates, women were one-half...
...abortion, and the prosecution of doctors who perform them, two items specifically mentioned in the Republican Party Platform. Bob Dole picked Molinari for the role in a gesture TIME's Elaine Rivera calls "an olive branch to moderate, pro-choice Republicans." Falling into step with the moderate line that dissent is healthy, Molinari has already said she will not mention the divisive abortion issue. Tuesday morning, she downplayed her speech entirely, doubting anyone would remember anything beyond her ringing endorsement of Dole as "everything that we need for this country to take us into the next century." Molinari will certainly...
...hasn't worked out that way. When fellow Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy wrote, for the 6-to-3 majority in Romer v. Evans in May, that a state constitutional amendment denying legal redress for discrimination based on homosexuality violated the equal-protection clause, Scalia wrote a withering dissent. He scoffed at the majority opinion's "grim, disapproving hints that Coloradans have been guilty of animus or animosity toward homosexuality, as though that has been established as un-American" and derided Kennedy's reasoning as "preposterous" and "comical," then dismissed the holding as "terminal silliness...