Word: logically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coverage of the program in your paper, and they certainly don't put the Glee Club, any of the college's academic activities on television According to Mr. Reardon, the football players are among those scholar-athletes who represent some of the best qualities of the University. Thus the logic, in this highly visible athletic activity more than in any other, of prohibiting Greg Williams' participation...
...reference to the cancellation by Law School officials of Adolfo Calero's speech after a protester (Tufts senior Joshua Laub) tried to attack the contra leader, Orenstein states, "Such panicked reactions [to protests]... stifle free speech on campus." Such logic is unfortunately warped. If the owner of a private forum in which to speak removes that forum, that does not constitute a restriction of free speech. A physical attack upon one who is speaking, however, is a "stifling" of that individual's right to free speech, and hence responsibility for any reaction thereto lies with the attacker...
Raised amid violence, Hagan responded with greater violence. Walk around like a hand grenade with the pin pulled, and people will make room. A soldier since age 13, he is adept at using battlefield logic to justify the daily carnage. "If you're in a war, you just accept that the only thing you can do is stay alive," he says. He impatiently explains the necessity of stealing from the enemy: "It's like I'm coming up in the world, you know. I'm trying to make it, and I need your wallet. That...
Still, even that twisted logic does not explain his cold-blooded murder of Kellie Mosier. A junior in high school, she was working at her first job, behind the counter of an ice-cream parlor. While Hagan was being initiated into gangs at the age of 13, she was still playing with dolls. Resisting pressure at school to join the gangs, she selected friends who shared dreams beyond the streets, and they stuck together for protection. Poised and attractive, she dreamed of being a fashion model...
...logic of Reagan's response to the crisis last fall is plainly fixed in his mind. When asked what his big mistake may have been, he slides around the question, drawn again into that belief that sustains him. He was protecting lives, daring to believe that there might be a change in Iran that would lead to better relations...