Word: logical
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...million should determine the fate of the Republican Party on a frozen night in January. There is no good reason that two candidates, Romney and Huckabee, should be forced to compete on such an unequal footing when it comes to campaign resources. But politics is rarely about fairness or logic...
...sells everything from hairpins to automobiles, catering to a spectrum of consumers as varied as the vehicles that bring them here. It is a microcosm of the diversity of "Consumer India" that marketing guru Rama Bijapurkar talks about in her new book We Are Like That Only: Understanding the Logic of Consumer India. "We are like that only..." is a particularly Indian English expression used to explain or excuse the country's idiosyncratic traits...
...character in one of the first three stories of “Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black,” the newest collection of short fiction from prolific octogenarian author and Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. The motley assembly of characters is only one aspect of the absence of internal logic that characterizes Gordimer’s most recent collection, an amalgam of 13 stories that previously appeared in periodicals ranging from “The New Yorker” to “Playboy.”Gordimer, who made her name writing about apartheid-era South Africa, laudably attempts...
...inequality and poverty are being engaged, even if gradually. Perhaps more impressively, communal councils and workplace cooperatives (as of 2006, 100,000 cooperatives employing 700,000 workers) have sprung up in an ambitious attempt to return power to the people, and with the ultimate intention of transcending the liberal logic of representation. Along with this, of course, Chavez’s authority has certainly grown. And as suggested by a few of the proposed amendments last week, he seems to have every intention of securing greater levels of influence for himself in the foreseeable future. While some Chavistas defend...
Nonetheless, we learned from the Iraq WMD debacle that logic has a limited place in assessing the behavior of radical regimes. Saddam Hussein bluffed his way into a war that cost him his regime and his life, when he could easily have come clean regarding a WMD program he no longer had. So we must be prepared to grant that bluff and pretense may be part of the Iranian nuclear game as well...