Word: logicality
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...John Gotti of jihad" for his delusion of self-importance [ESSAY, Dec. 24]. I couldn't help thinking of another comparison: Charles Manson. Both bin Laden and Manson collected mentally unstable, fringe-element losers to carry out the cold-blooded murder of innocent people. In their psychotic logic, both men expected to trigger revolutions that would lead them to power. Bin Laden is not a supervillain or a super anything. He's really just a Charles Manson with a rich daddy. KEVIN COLE Seattle...
...logic of early detection seems hard to argue against; after all, the sooner you catch a cancer, the better your chances of nipping it in the bud. That's why for decades doctors have been recommending breast self-examination and annual mammograms for women over 40. But an analysis of several large studies late last year cast doubt on the conventional wisdom, suggesting that the presumed benefits of early detection were based on flawed studies. The American Cancer Society, however, was quick to point to other studies indicating that mammographic screening reduces mortality even more than previously thought...
...Employment and Contracting Policies that the minimum wage rate for University workers be raised, but that you reject its recommendation that future increases in this wage be subject only to the outcome of so-called “collective bargaining.” Instead, I believe that the same logic that leads to an immediate increase in the wage is also compelling for a periodic cost of living adjustment...
...Kashmiris themselves to take up arms against India. By shutting down terrorism, in fact, Musharraf potentially strengthens Pakistan's diplomatic position in calling for an internationally mediated political solution that would allow Kashmir's own people to determine its fate - a prospect not relished in New Delhi. But the logic of Musharraf's crackdown, and India's patient response, suggests the potential for the emergence of a consensus between India and Pakistan that the fate of Kashmir should not be allowed to continue to disfigure their relationship, and their long-term national interests...
...people are anxious to ponder in public, partly because no one wants to sound insensitive, but also because there's a weird sense of survivors' guilt among those of us who didn't lose anyone on that horrible day. We can't imagine the agony of the bereaved, the logic goes, and so we shouldn't argue with the compensation...