Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cases: in Brighton they suspected that one person per-petrated all the crimes, and in Roxbury, perhaps three or even four different suspects were being sought. Therefore, the police said, they didn't feel that stepped up police protection was necessarily the solution to the Roxbury problem. Though the logic of using fewer police to catch more criminals seems dubious at best, this is the very reasoning that guided the assignment of officers to the different cases...
...open letter, President Bok's argument is presented as if it were a deductively logical discourse accurately representing the reality of the Harvard community's South Africa dilemma. Let us look first to the argument's, underlying assumptions, second, to its logic, and finally, to the choice it represents...
...fears that an action expressing the will of the majority of the Harvard community is potentially oppressive to some vague minority of individuals. (Which individuals, with what stakes, we ask?) He contorts logic to imply that the present University position is neutral--he is always trying to elevate his position to the pedestal of the neutral. Come now. Is an untenured professor any safer speaking out for divestiture today than he or she would be speaking out for aid to aprtheid after divestiture had occured...
...sense, the Iranian revolution was an exercise in internal anticolonialism: a convulsive rejection of foreign influence that had, so a wide variety of Iranians thought, robbed their culture of its Islamic values and its natural wealth. In a psychological way, the revolutionaries were obeying the logic of many anticolonial fighters who, in the formulation of the revolutionary theorist Frantz Fanon, held that the "native" must be transformed into a free man through struggle against his foreign oppressors. In countries like Algeria and Kenya, the struggle was protracted and violent. In Iran, after a point, the army foreshortened the process...
Almost no one can discuss children rationally; having children and raising them successfully is an essentially irrational act. It obeys a profound and sometimes self-punishing logic like salmon thrashing upriver to spawn, an impulse encoded in the race's will to go on. All kinds of aversions to and adorations of children occur simultaneously now. The young are battered and cherished, subjected to violent extremes of malnourishment and indulgence. Children are so swaddled in myth and delusion that Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, argues that Americans should...