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Ladies and gentlemen, if you look to your right, you can see logic safely exiting the building...
...adoption by the U.S. of tactics familiar from the West Bank and Gaza is hardly surprising given the escalation of the insurgency. The logic of force protection and maintaining the deterrent credibility of the 130,000-strong U.S. force in Iraq required an aggressive response. The Israelis have certainly shown that sustained military pressure can, at least on a temporary basis, put Palestinian militants on the defensive and significantly reduce the rate of attacks from a given area for a fixed period. But Israel's tactics are those that fit with a strategy of long-term occupation, in which...
...interview last month, Summers elaborated on the logic behind his stance...
Although gay marriage poses no threat to family values or heterosexual romance, this recognition is overshadowed by a visceral disgust with homosexuality that defies logic. In reality, married gay couples could provide more stable households for their children than many heterosexual couples. With the American divorce rate hovering at around 50 percent, and with child abuse devastatingly pervasive, it is hard to imagine that the average gay marriage would be any less stable than the average straight marriage...
Inside the sweaty walls of a Harvard weekend, drinking logic often defies the basic premise of social norms programs: that if students overestimate their peers’ drinking, they will drink more than they would otherwise. Instead, there’s a part of every partier that wants to be an exception to stereotypes of straight-edged Harvard. All the better, for some, that a full 68 percent of Harvard students did not drink five or more drinks during a typical two-week period in 2002, according to a National College Health Assessment survey. That only steels their minoritarian dash...