Word: logical
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This Orwellian logic makes sense to Peggy Tishman, one of many New York Jewish leaders willing to sacrifice truth for the greater good. As she told The New Republic: "There are a lot of truths that are very necessary. This is not a truth that's necessary...
...apparent impotence of current programs in the face of the face of the problems of the underclass is what makes Norplant's use-- required or with incentives--so tempting. No one who seriously cares about the plight of the poor can assail the short-term logic of resorting to Norplant. But it is based on a false premise: merely reducing the number of children born into poverty or other adverse living conditions does not in itself remove the condition and is thus an overly simplistic method of dealing with the current crisis...
What makes Asian and Latino American activists demand "representation" in the curriculum is the spurious egalitarian logic that says that "race" should somehow be as important to their lives and in their education as it is for African-Americans. Asian and Latino Americans have undoubtedly suffered from racial innuendo, discrimination, and even violence. But the racism that affects these minorities has not been nearly as pervasive, isolating, recalcitrant, and deeply-rooted as the racism affecting African Americans, whose 400 years' experience of slavery, exploitation, segregation, ghettoization, and struggle has kept them by and large a distinct "nation within a nation...
Psychiatry may be capable of explaining such behavior, and perhaps the security of office will calm Clinton down. But for now, what is most distressing is Clinton's failure to follow the logic of his most astute observation. If he is right when he says that changing circumstances mandate changing views -- and he is -- he should say so and leave it at that. He need not fear the public's reaction. The lesson of last fall's election, as put succinctly by Clinton's new Budget Director, Leon Panetta, is that "the people have said, 'Don't kid us anymore...
...courses of action are open to a dissatisfied public. No precedent exists for the overturning of a presidential pardon. According to Harvard Government Professor Gary King, there is "no standard way" to reverse a pardon. "The Supreme Court technically could come up with some convoluted logic," King said, but there is no official recourse or established jurisdiction for such a challenge...