Word: logical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...similarly disturbing indictment of affirmative action was made when it was revealed that the University of Michigan maintains separate sets of admissions standards for whites and for various racial minorities. There is an inconsistency of logic in arguing against the principle of "separate, but equal," as in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, when this was detrimental to minorities, and now, when it ostensibly benefits minorities, fighting to uphold a system of "separate, but equal," standards in admissions to the nation's institutions of higher learning...
...make the case for the great names on the list, TIME sought out a hall-of-fame collection of writers and thinkers. The logic was simple: Who better to profile Winston Churchill than British writer John Keegan, perhaps the greatest living military historian. William F. Buckley Jr. was so taken with his subject--Pope John Paul II--that he awakened senior editor Joshua Cooper Ramo early on a Sunday morning to chat about how best to end his piece. The pairings--which also include Elie Wiesel on Hitler, Doris Kearns Goodwin on Eleanor Roosevelt and Salman Rushdie on Gandhi...
...logic," Hitler was persuaded for a fairly long time that the German and British people had every reason to get along and divide up spheres of influence throughout the world. He did not understand British obstinacy in its resistance to his racial philosophy and to the practical ends it engendered...
...moral reasoning and textual analysis. Though the graduate students among us will decry such sentiment as 19th century, it is nevertheless true that the very processes of cognitive reflection, scientific experimentation, psychological examination, biblical exegesis and sundry other academic pursuits, are attempts to discover, if not logic, at least meaning in the world. Nothing in itself needs explanation in order to exist or live: individuals, societies, the planet itself do not require guide plans, and if they are subject to the programs by knowledgeable consultants, they consistently fail to live up to set standards. Columnists, too, are guilty...
...that I never do the same thing. I and a few friends once wore pantyhose to school after some guys on our swim team refused to shave their legs for a championship meet, victims of the same ingrained homophobia and fear of femininity. I can't remember the logic behind it, but we were sure that by doing so we'd shame them into shaving...