Word: logical
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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resolve the issue "with the best common sense and logic...
Harvard is very conscious of its role as a social force in America; the University sees itself, for instance, as making disadvantaged students upwardly mobile. So by the same logic, Harvard should try to work toward a society where women have the same opportunities as men by producing equal numbers of qualified male and female graduates. One of the tired old justifications of admissions policies skewed in favor of men is that Harvard has a responsibility to educate male leaders. But Harvard's real responsibility is to work toward a society where both men and women are leaders...
...first explanation is faulty because Philadelphia was the only Eastern urban center plagued by teacher strikes in 1972-1973 and very few Harvard blacks prep in Philadelphia's public schools. The second explanation is difficult to attack statistically, but the perverse logic behind it is evident...
...your article "Ideas v. Goods" [Jan. 14]: it is sometimes shocking how intellectuals such as Professor Coase use faulty logic to arrive at improbable theses...
VIETNAM FOR ME had not been an historical lesson, or an example of American imperialism, of even a catastrophic event. It had been an intensely personal and over-whelmingly subjective experience which intruded on the me and was suddenly over--with no apparent meaning or logic...