Word: fortiori
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...recent Perspective Women’s Issue demonstrates exactly the unjustified generalizations and lack of nuanced debate which make such an issue necessary (“Perspective’s Girl Talk,” April 16). In addition to holding Perspective responsible for emasculating men (and, a fortiori, the popularity of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”), Smith misrepresents Perspective and misconstrues and trivializes the idea of gender equality...
...probably inevitable that Martin Scorsese, one of a crowd of fine young American directors and maybe the best of them, would end up making a movie about boxing. All of the American rituals of machismo apply a fortiori to Italian-Americans; the pathetic pulp idiocy of Rocky virtually created Raging Bull. It is the story of Jake LaMotta only as much as Taxi Driver was the story of Travis Bickle, for Scorsese's new film has the same epic thrust of the earlier one. But where Taxi Driver was about America after Vietnam, Raging Bull is really about Martin Scorsese...
...indeed, tends to subsidize him. Institutions of higher learning are generally in financial difficulties. One way out is to require that students pay tuition more nearly equal to costs. That they can afford to do so is suggested by the anticipated lifetime income of a college man and a fortiori of a Harvard alumnus. Sample studies of incomes of families and spending patterns also point to capacity to pay full costs for a substantial proportion of college students. In fact, payments of costs would require an additional payment equal to considerably less than one per cent of the lifetime income...
...argues in effect that since we cannot ask a guilty man to contribute evidence which will lead a judge to pronounce him guilty, a fortiori we cannot ask an innocent man to contribute evidence which will mislead a judge to pronounce him guilty. A man cannot be held to contribute to what he stands to suffer by. Both principles would seem to follow from the simple principle of moral respect, the same principle which makes it unallowable to ask a criminal to hang himself or order his own firing squad...
...country's leading law school, such spontaneous action stands as a compelling precedent for other organizations faced with a similar decision. Is there any reason that Phi Beta Kappa, Law Reviews, and other honorary groups should not follow suit? As for non-honorary groups, the conclusion is a fortiori. If there are any distinguishing factors, any compelling circumstances, that differentiate the Legal Aid case from any other, the Bureau has chosen to conceal them...