Word: insists
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...refused to halt the confinement, as did a state district court judge. The school's superintendent, Paul Fleming, defends the dress code and the punishment. Zach and his parents may take the case before the U.S. Court of Appeals. If girls are allowed to wear their hair long, they insist, boys should...
...that the Law School discriminates against women and minorities in its faculty hiring policies, 11 members of the school's Coalition for Civil Rights (CCR) became the first law students ever to sue their school. But while the students concede that they are treading in uncharted waters, they still insist that they expect to establish precedent rather than follow...
Washington Monthly editor Charles Peters once identified the "Firemen First Principle" whereby bureaucrats threatened with a budget cut insist that the only way to economize is to cut essential services. Whenever a conflict between ethical propriety and financial gain arises, Harvard invariably announces that need-blind admissions--not $35,000 to paint "artistic" stripes on the Quad--would be the first thing to go. By means of an accounting gimmick, Harvard sees that alumni contributions are channeled into scholarship funds, making it seem that every last dollar of alumni contributions is necessary to maintain need-blind admissions...
...best recollection, our editorials have never disputed that there are a great many bright people at Harvard. Nor have we argued that Harvard should limit its consideration to SAT scores, or even to SAT scores and class ranks. We simply insist that Harvard stop granting unwarranted special treatment to those who have a good jump shot or a Harvard pedigree. We also insist that Harvard be completely forthright about these policies--a request that has yet to be granted...
...into its most ominous problem to date. As a result, the chance of success is diminished. All that is left of the great American consensus on the gulf is a chorus of calls for a "national debate." Fair enough. Congress and the public have every right to insist that the Administration justify the risks it is asking its citizens to run. But criticism of policy should meet the same standards of logic and efficacy as policy itself. So far, what the Administration is doing makes more sense than most of what its critics are saying...