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...talks with Iraq in Vienna fail to reach agreement. Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens hearings on Iraq...
House e-mail lists are an ineffective place for debating serious issues; that they fail at providing a true academic community should be no surprise. The limitations of e-mail range from the difficulty of engaging in back-and-forth debate to the failure of typing to compete with the rate of speech. The surprise may come at the lists’ effectiveness at providing an often entertaining, social community...
...inverts the moral order. Killing, normally forbidden, is suddenly sanctioned, even deemed heroic. Stakes are high. So is fear. Paranoia drifts on the wind like mustard gas. Disagreement may look like treason. Due process may appear to be an unaffordable luxury. The First Amendment may seem optional. The peacetime fail-safe checks and balances (Congress and courts keeping the presidency honest) may strip themselves down to a military principle--deference to the chain of command, and to the Com-mander in Chief...
Kirby was blindsided at Tuesday’s Faculty meeting by an unexpectedly vocal turnout of faculty opposed to preregistration. But it remains unclear whether this means the measure will fail: critics of the plan, including students, recruited heavily among the Faculty to get individuals to speak out against the proposal. Kirby, apparently confident in an easy victory, had only one person speaking on his behalf. Those numbers could change by the time the Faculty votes on preregistration sometime in April...
...assuming or ignoring property rights and laws, economists consistently fail to pull the growth rabbit out of the hat of formal analysis. With an over-investment in impressive sounding equations yielding only marginal returns, economic theories are running a significant deficit of common sense...