Word: ideality
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...years, the Inn at Harvard, which is now privately owned by DoubleTree Hotels, will become the property of Harvard. It is the most ideal space for a future student center because of its size, key location between the Yard and the River and its ability to be changed relatively easily to a center of student life. Already it includes many of the features that a student center would include. The rooms on upper floors can be converted to offices; the dining facilities can easily be renovated to create student-friendly cafeteria space; the meeting rooms and infrastructure could be modified...
Students at the Career Forum also said the location of the the event in the Gordon Track and Tennis Center was not ideal for the event...
...other institutions lack. Often the choice between justice and learning, or between two different ways of helping others, is complicated and difficult. Not all ethical claims are obvious, nor do all social causes bear righteousness beyond question. There is a role for reason in arbitrating among them, and the ideal of liberal education (so painfully distorted at the hands of the Core Committee) is that through learning we can discover what the world is like and how one should live within it. The model of rigorous argument that mathematics provides, the skepticism and attention to empirical reasoning of the sciences...
...left-wing journalist Christopher Hitchens complained in the Nation that in their haste to point the finger at the U.S., some of the antiwarriors dismissed the fact that what the terrorists want is not a liberal ideal of global justice but the despot's utopia of religious extremism. "The bombers of Manhattan represent fascism with an Islamic face," Hitchens wrote. "What they abominate about 'the West'...is its emancipated women, its scientific inquiry, its separation of religion from the state...
...night this time of year, temperatures can fall into the 30s. During the day, the clear skies make a perfect canvas on which to watch for the telltale wisps of dust that follow moving soldiers or helicopters or armor. Just as the badlands of the American West were ideal places for the outlaws who haunted the imagination of 19th century America, so the rugged country of Afghanistan is perfect, as if made for the outlaw who haunts the start of the 21st...