Word: logical
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...peruse the complete list of nominees here, but rather than apply logic to the logic-less, let's sort through who benefited and suffered at the hands of whimsical old Grammy...
...caveats. First, weaponization is the most opaque of the three elements. Iran has never declared it or admitted it. Accurate information about it would be hardest to come by. Second, the logic is odd. We now believe weaponization was suspended in fall 2003, at the same time uranium enrichment was suspended. However, when uranium enrichment was resumed a few months after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's accession to power, the weaponization program (we are now told...
Most reasonable students have long conceded the UC’s unmistakable lack of influence and power over most concerns of college life, aside from cutting precious few checks to the hundreds of ravenous student groups. Yet, for some inexplicable reason, UC aspirants and representatives remain impervious to this logic...
...almost surely impossible barring a total transformation of current structures of consumption and production. As another, no less ominous example, consider the fact that mainstream economics has no answers for the displaced rural masses coalescing on the outskirts of monstrous megacities across the global south. As per capitalist logic, their inability to compete with large-scale commercial enterprises has demanded their demise. Yet, according to Samir Amin’s calculations, “in 50 years’ time, industrial development, even in the fanciful hypothesis of a continued growth rate of seven percent annually, could not absorb even...
...Cambridge’s polling places. Donation boxes collecting money for any other cause, be it homelessness, uninsured children, or education, would be equally unacceptable. One may argue that the war has nothing to do with municipal elections and thus the boxes should have been allowed, but that logic brings election officials into the dangerous practice of judging what messages are relevant to what elections. Eliminating political messages from polling places altogether sets a clearer standard that is less prone to selective censorship. Election officials made the right decision to protect the integrity of the election, and it is deeply...