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...were spiked because they took issue with the paper's stance. The paper's No. 2 editor, Gerald Boyd, tried to quell the uproar by explaining in a staff memo that one piece amounted to "unseemly and self-absorbed" quarreling with the editorial page and that the other's "logic did not meet our standards." But that failed to dampen the newsroom outrage, and the top editors decided to print the columns after...
...onward, concepts like Black English Vernacular and African-American Vernacular English have been studied systematically by sociolinguists since the early 1970’s. Though connotations of Ebonics in popular culture are negative, in linguistics, those connotations are emphatically positive, citing these speech varieties’ internal logic and rich history...
...Murphy said he objects to that logic...
DIED. JOHN RAWLS, 81, gentle giant of liberalism, who changed the study of political philosophy from one of logic and science to one concerned primarily with social and moral justice; in Lexington, Mass. The longtime Harvard professor's 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, revived the idea--promoted by Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau but abandoned for much of the 20th century--of the social contract: the idea that society should be built on a mutually beneficial agreement among its members. His views on ethics and the rights of individuals have influenced the debate on affirmative action, welfare and assisted suicide...
...people. The military is there to secure the Turkish people. Our interests are common. We are lovers of the same country, servants of the same people. Any decisions that any one of the sides makes will be to better the lives of the Turkish people. Therefore common sense and logic will prevail...