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...modern world, "demystified" and bereft of great books, knowledge and education (even in a moral sense) can only depend on the method of constant criticism and revision (a method, incidentally, to which Aristotle contributed the beginnings of analytic logic). --David Meskill '88, Second-year graduate student in the Department of History
...American girl's name. Elizabeth was always my favorite name, the name I intended for my first child. We would call her Liza, though, to set her gently apart from the gaggle of Lizzies and Beths. But as I grow to understand my parents' reasoning in naming me, their logic makes more and more sense, and the chance that I would give my own child such a typical name fades...
...Logic says Saddam will strike out again and again, requiring further and further retaliation from the U.S. "We know he's going to knock on that door from time to time to see if there's anybody out there who still cares," says a senior White House official. "He's got to recognize that we're still here and we ain't going away." For the moment, the U.S. still holds the balance of power in the Gulf and has proved it will use that power alone if necessary. That is making a virtue of necessity; anything closer to stability...
...adopt, but what then of couples who do not want to have kids, who in fact both hate kids and would provide a terrible environment for a child to grow up in? Should marriages such as these be encouraged, too, simply because the couples are heterosexual? Not by the logic that justifies denying same-sex marriages. If it is the nuclear family that is threatened by a homosexual union, then there are many more marriages that the government should not hesitate to not recognize, such as marriages of the unemployed or the sterilized...
...same logic applies even more powerfully to smoking. Smokers in the study were four times as likely to develop early heart disease as nonsmokers, no matter what their Lp(a) level. "Smoking," says Bostom, "blows everything out of the water in terms of being a risk factor for coronary disease." Men who light up almost don't need to worry about cholesterol of any sort. They have a much bigger problem to deal with...