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...Logic says it will take better intelligence--far better than we have now--to make a pre-emptive doctrine work. Congress last week held hearings on what went wrong last year--and why the President did not act on the wisps of information his Administration had gathered in the months leading up to Sept. 11. Bush's critics imply that if all the warnings and indications had been pulled together in advance, the President or his aides could have discerned the plot and launched a pre-emptive strike on Osama bin Laden last summer. That is a charge the White...
...installing cable relative to Harvard’s ability to pay for cable and its past unrealized opportunities to do the job at huge savings leads me to the conclusion that Harvard has chosen not to avail the student body of cable because, in a fine example of market logic invading the purportedly separate academic sphere, it has no financial reason to care. The student body is expendable and the administration behaves accordingly. Almost 20,000 kids applied to Harvard last year and the administration only needs 1,600 or so to fill all the beds (not that there...
...left to collect samples from the teeth of old men, from fresh rainwater and from tidal pools on the coast. If Leeuwenhoek lived today, he might have been hassled by another set of beasties who make their homes not in pond water but in Washington. According to the twisted logic of a passel of ethicists, scientists and others hand-picked by the Bush administration, scraping a sample from an old man’s gums to peer at it under a microscope could be ethically questionable...
Charles Krauthammer's argument for invading Iraq in "The Terrible Logic of Nukes" [Essay, Sept. 2] is just that: terrible logic. Iraq wants nuclear weapons to balance Israel's, which built them to balance Arab conventional superiority. Pakistan wanted to balance India, which had to balance China, which had to balance Russia, which had to balance the U.S. and its allies, which had to balance Russia's presumed European-theater superiority. Throughout this balancing act, the world has been no more than 30 minutes away from Armageddon. The only logical way to keep nuclear weapons out of the hands...
Murphy’s transition back to the secondary leaves sophomore star Aaron Byrd, the projected starter there last spring when Murphy was moved to linebacker, as the odd man out of the starting mix in the defensive backfield. But Byrd doesn’t question the logic behind Murphy’s switch...