Word: logical
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...Democrats, by contrast, sounded almost pleased. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, a Democrat from Nevada, personally urged Bush to consider Miers, sources say. A senior administration official, asked about the logic of the choice, points to Democratic support and the fact that, as Bush said in introducing her, Miers had been "a pioneer in the field of law"-a woman who was active in the Southern legal community at a time it was dominated by men, becoming the first female president of both the Dallas Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. Sure enough, Reid issued a statement...
...writers seem terrified of us meeting someone who doesn’t attend Harvard. The planner states, “Never invite a person whom you have met on the street, in a bar, or in another public place back to your room.” Following this logic would negate one of the main reasons for going to Harvard: the H-Bomb. How else is a Harvard guy supposed to get some action if he can’t drop one to some girl from BU? No, seriously, how? Some of our editors want to know...
...label “judicial activism” against the leader of the executive branch is a strange contortion of logic indeed (“An Unlikely ‘Activist Judge,’” editorial, Sept...
When asked by an audience member to voice his opinion on the pending admission of Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, and Turkey into the EU, he stated that he supports their admission. Klaus used the blackboard to demonstrate his logic, drawing a graph indicating that the more member states that join, the shallower their integration will...
Furthermore, why a team like Yale—which will enter its first game with lingering question marks at all of its skill positions—would risk going up against a gun-slinging upstart, to which it could possibly lose, also defies logic. Throw in the fact that many Bulldogs supporters feel that coach Jack Siedlecki should be packing the contents of his desk into cardboard boxes, and you’ve got the makings of a disastrous opener...