Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These personal investments are barely permissible by the HMC policy. Nonetheless, the holdings violate the spirit and the underlying logic behind the conflict-of-interest restrictions...
When they come to understand the consequences of their logic, AALARM founders will probably deny they support proportional representation in admissions. Regardless, AALARM's posters reveal just how far the group will skew its reasoning and contort its ideology to further its disgraceful campaign against gay students...
...future is grim. The United States will sell more than $20 billion in weapons to countries in the Middle East this year. One should not be surprised if some end up in Saddam Hussein's hands. The Kissingerian logic which has guided Bush's policy prescribes "striving for an equilibrium between Iraq, Iran, Syria and other regional powers." With reports that Syria has already spent more than one billion coalition dollars on guns, the Iraqi side of the equation may need some shoring up. This Realpolitik would approach farce--if there were not dead bodies everywhere...
CONSERVATIVES must also rethink their objectives. By marginalizing gays, society denies them the chance to affirm community values--the very values we claim to uphold. For example, logic would hold that, as champions of faith and fidelity, AALARM should advocate legal gay marriage. The prospect of legal same-sex marriage would, as Andrew Sullivan has brilliantly argued, "traditionalize" gay life by removing one of the many barriers now preventing gays from entering the social mainstream...
...dispersed in millions of square miles of thick forests. Never mind that Saddam Hussein launched Scud missiles for weeks from sites in the open desert while a huge force of allied warplanes tried to find them. When it comes to buying weapons, it seems, cost is no object and logic goes out the window...