Word: enlightenment
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Sadly, as shown by a selection of titles one Sunday afternoon at the Coop, it seems the new manifestations of “women’s literature” have lost their positive power to inspire and enlighten as well...
...increase the fee to $100 without any reasonable justification. If the system can legitimately be maintained at the lower rate, then foreign students should only be responsible for the recommended $54. The DHS is not in the business of fleecing prospective international students, and it needs to enlighten the public about why the costs of maintaining its program are now considered to be so high. Vague explanations—such as professing that not all factors were considered, as the DHS has done in the past—do not fulfill this obligation...
...coined the phrase “tyranny of the majority.” Although he distrusted democracies to get things right the first time, he was optimistic that they could learn from their excesses. “Let time do its work; a sense of the evil will enlighten the people and show them what they need,” he said. “The great privilege of the Americans is to be able to make retrievable mistakes...
Alan Dershowitz either cannot or refuses to understand why there is a controversy surrounding The Case for Israel (Letter, “Plagiarism Accusations Political, Unfounded,” Sept. 30). Perhaps I can enlighten him. Quite simply, the book he claims to have written is a hoax: (1) substantial swatches are lifted from another notorious hoax on the Israel-Palestine conflict, (2) it is replete with egregious falsifications, and (3) the few scholarly sources actually cited are mangled beyond recognition. In this reply, I will only illustrate points (1) and (2). These, along with point (3), will be fully...
...unfairly subjective—it shouldn’t be any individual’s job to moderate. Besides, House lists are inherently self-regulating; when someone posts an offensive, asinine or ignorant e-mail, others on the list will likely ostracize this view with condemnatory e-mails or enlighten the issue with worthwhile e-mail discussion. And given the implicit aim of House lists—to improve House community—this inherent, existing means of regulation is the most effective and realistic...