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...logic like that will leave the University permanently on the defensive...
...almost impossible to imagine a scenario in which Jones can repeat the cultural dominance her first album achieved. For one thing, she won't be filling her days with phone interviews and photo shoots. For another, multiplatinum-sales phenomena like Come Away with Me have a logic all their own. Buying the first album by a beautiful, jazz-inflected underdog was an act of self-definition. Buying the second album by a charming, known commodity shows nothing more than an interest in pleasant songs expertly sung. Feels like Home is equally as good as its predecessor, yet for external reasons...
...fascination with the shine and beep of all things high tech, I'm becoming more of a fumbling Luddite. And that's a bummer, because any digiratus will tell you that not only does technology change quickly but the pace at which it changes is accelerating. According to this logic, in 10 years we'll be buying newer models of obsolete gadgets still in development...
...former cabinet head testified "everyone knew" about. "This decision targets the entire Chirac system, striking at the man at the top of that system - Chirac - via his closest ally and confidant," says Dominique Moïsi, deputy director of the French Institute of International Relations. "But that logic suggests the trial itself became a politicized examination of illegal party financing." But if Juppé is seen as a scapegoat, he says, "that may spark a counterreaction in a French public that wants politics cleaned up." In a poll taken after Juppé's conviction, 57% called the sentence "severe...
...that homosexuality is not intrinsically wrong and that if we want to strengthen families, the last thing we should do is deprive citizens of an institution that can facilitate strong family bonds. Indeed, it is sad that we have to continue fighting the same kind of flawed, regressive logic that social conservatives have used for centuries to deprive whole sections of the population of fundamental rights—from opponents of interracial marriage and the Civil Rights Act 40 years ago to foes of women’s suffrage 85 years ago. The reactionaries were wrong then, and they...