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...since [he] has no absolute concept of right.” But Chertoff saved his best fighting words for the attack on Bentham’s conception of the individual. Bentham operated with no “concept of right” and thus, human rights did not exist in his world, he wrote. “Bentham’s doctrines of greatest happiness and conditional obligation do not protect rights at all,” Chertoff said. “To the utilitarians, the only reason why civil rights should be respected would be that more pleasure...
...defining University policy and more broadly, the central tenets of American higher learning. Summers was brought in to revitalize the University presidency as Harvard looks to reflect and retool.The onus is on the Faculty to air and, further, to act on genuine, substantive, and specific grievances when they exist. But the continued venting of general, undirected dissatisfaction with Summers’ brusqueness, his abruptness, or any of his acknowledged idiosyncrasies, is a disservice to the entire Harvard community. A distracted Faculty must stop neglecting the vital business of forging ahead with the HCCR, finding a new dean of the Faculty...
...obscenity to ask nothing of heiresses while helicopter pilots are giving everything. The tax-cut obsession certainly makes it hard for the President to propose anything useful in his State of the Union speeches. His vaunted energy independence initiative was a mirage, a minor reshuffling of programs that already exist or a reinstatement of those cut in previous years. At least one of Bush's proposals-the goal of reducing our dependence on "Middle Eastern" oil 75% by 2025-resulted in an embarrassing retreat. Bush's Energy Secretary, Samuel Bodman, retracted the pledge a day later, saying the President...
...about "Lang" from Dartmouth and "Martin" from Yale. Do they both exist...
...engaging in terrorism, with its military wing assuming responsibility for numerous terrorist operations, including suicide bombs in Israel. Its disturbing record of violence has caused the U.S. and E.U. to classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. Second, Hamas must recognize the state of Israel and its right to exist. While we understand that this recognition would be directly opposed to one of Hamas’ fundamental goals and would thus be a difficult step to enact, it is nonetheless a necessary measure if Hamas hopes to establish itself as a political entity eligible for the aid contributions it currently receives.This...