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Thanks to Michael Kinsley for engaging the myth that to question the validity of the Iraq war is to betray the troops in the field [March 5]. Equating support for soldiers with military escalation is insidious. True support would be to remove them from harm's way. But I take exception to his affirmation that the cause--removing a dictator--was worthy. That's just as dishonest as saying we need to continue the war to support the troops. Is the civil war that we unleashed a noble cause? Or was the arrogant pretext of imposing Western values...
...question of exceptions for thesis writers is routine during shopping period and an official policy on some syllabi. And many professors are willing to be flexible about the dates of midterms and papers. “I don’t think it does any harm to the rest of the students to give those people a bit of a break,” said Professor of Semitic Philology John Huehnergard, who teaches Social Analysis 74, “Visible Language: Writing Systems, Scripts, and Literacy.” “I think it’d be just...
...time the electronics, the vocals, and the drums come together, the tracks are nearly over. Lyrically, the album is wholly unsatisfying, primarily because the words don’t seem to mesh with the other elements of any given track. For the most part, though, this shortcoming does little harm because the vocals blend into the mélange of other sounds. That’s why the lyrics don’t annoy, even when he sings “We grew up quick/ We get drunk quick” to twinkling piano notes that sound like they came...
...partner he wanted, he now faces the very problem he tried to avoid. Cheney has become the Administration's enemy within, the man whose single-minded pursuit of ideological goals, creaking political instincts and love of secrecy produced an independent operation inside the White House that has done more harm than good...
...political patronage that keeps its red-leather benches stocked. More than 600 Lords and Ladies are politically appointed and they sit alongside 92 peers whose only qualification for public office is that they inherited titles originally conferred on their ancestors back in the days when nobody saw the harm in rewarding loyalty with the odd tongue-twisting honorific and a few dozen serfs. Together with archbishops, bishops and legal chiefs, this motley group of hereditary and appointed peers is responsible for proposing, amending and revising British laws. On Wednesday, with MPs' resolve seemingly strengthened by allegations that such peerages...