Word: logical
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...project of women’s studies. This is not unlike the work that occurs in any other department. That is, history concentrators study history as they also grapple with what constitutes history, who crafts history, what methods are used to collect history, etc. Under Kavulla’s logic, the work that is occurring in any discipline is necessarily “tunnel visioned” by virtue of the fact that we read the core texts of our discipline before problematizing those texts and putting them into dialogue with the work occurring in other disciplines. That is, women?...
Inside the sweaty walls of a Harvard weekend, drinking logic often defies the basic premise of social norms programs: that if students overestimate their peers’ drinking, they will drink more than they would otherwise. Instead, there’s a part of every partier that wants to be an exception to stereotypes of straight-edged Harvard. All the better, for some, that a full 68 percent of Harvard students did not drink five or more drinks during a typical two-week period in 2002, according to a National College Health Assessment survey. That only steels their minoritarian dash...
...should the government play, and what are the rights of the fetus versus those of the mother. The posters reconfigure the issue entirely. Just like Bill Clinton signing the Republicans’ 1996 welfare reform bill, HRL is sweeping abortion-rights advocates’ twin foundations—the logic of choice and women’s interests—out from under them. Once pro-lifers stop saying women shouldn’t be able to have abortions and simply say that they shouldn’t choose to have them, pro-choicers are left with almost nothing...
That’s where the logic falls apart...
Some have argued that because these men are not fighting for a nation, the POW label does not apply. But if America is embroiled in a “War on Terror,” the logic should be consistent. The U.S. is battling against global terrorism that knows no state boundaries, and new definitions of old ideas such as POWs are badly needed. Though the world community is different from the one that gathered in the Geneva Convention in 1949, the principles of human and civil rights have not changed...