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Federal prosecutors admit there are no firm rules on detaining combatants. "We are in uncharted legal territory here," says one. And some experts believe security trumps due process. "If we err too far on the side of civil liberties, an awful lot of Americans could lose their lives," says Robert Turner, a University of Virginia law professor...
Harvard, and indeed all universities, should seize the moment when incidents such as those at HLS occur. When students err on sensitive issues such as race, universities typically distance themselves from the situation, mistakenly framing the issue as an isolated incident. This “discipline and divorce” response reifies, rather than reaffirms the university’s commitment to diversity and democratic values...
Explanations for conversions naturally err on the side of offering rational justifications for what is seen as irrational faith. “I would encourage people not to view it in a deterministic way, because that discounts the possibility that people might have really done the intellectual and spiritual work of trying to figure out whether the claims of a religion are true,” says Sarah G. Dawson ’04, who was baptized as a Christian at the end of her first year, despite considerable objections from her family. “Regardless of whether...
Though skepticism may be an essential part of academic life, we err in asserting that it reigns sophisticated where the less suspicious nature stands simplistic. In “The Will to Believe” William James, himself no rube, wrote, “Moral skepticism can no more be refuted or proved by logic than intellectual skepticism can…The skeptic with his whole nature adopts the doubting attitude; but which of us is the wiser. Omniscience only knows.” While it is our prerogative to believe in nothing before we believe in something that could...
...variety of reasons, radiologists in the U.S. tend to err on the side of caution. That is, they identify lots of "abnormalities," of which only 2% to 11% prove to be cancerous--either DCIS or an invasive tumor. Sometimes a second mammogram or an ultrasound provides the necessary reassurance. Other times, a biopsy--which entails the removal of some breast tissue--is required to resolve any ambiguity. Here the odds of finding cancer rise to about 25%, which means that 75% of biopsies come back negative...