Word: mantras
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...Arendt was talking about how the relentless push-and-pull of organizations and bureaucracies can create a way to blame the system rather than oneself. "I was just following orders" - that was the mantra of the German officers at the Nuremberg Trials. It's not a completely illegitimate defense. But I don't think Andrea Yates will say she was "just following orders...
...your intellect isn't that good, you stop trying to process it and you hide in a cocoon of close advisers. But President Arroyo is always checking things out with her own sources." She despises gossip and fuzziness, and her demand for "empirical evidence" has become a palace mantra...
...still walked with the measured steps of a man at high altitude. He looked out of place among the soft, comfortable suburbanites that came to toast his accomplishment. And as he spoke he reassured the crowd that he was done with Everest. But he added that the climbers? mantra is "So many peaks, so little time...
This familiar mantra surfaced last week in the Justice Department's mea culpa letter to the McVeigh defense lawyers. Justice floated it in hopes that the media would pick it up and repeat it. And we did. But the government's argument is laughable. How would a prosecutor know what's important to a defendant's case? Prosecutors use the excuse to minimize their misconduct under the theory "no harm, no foul," but the courts should punish those who deliberately hold back important evidence. Yet judges too often look the other...
...Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880, is famous for saying “speak softly, but carry a big stick.” With its position at the forefront of national education, the mantra might as well be about Harvard. Historically, some of the nation’s most important education reforms have emerged from Harvard’s own bully pulpit...