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...practices constrain rather than enable a woman’s autonomy. By limiting women’s capacity for self-reflection and free action, this backdrop of religious conservatism has robbed too many women of the ability to meaningfully contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent is meaningless. Genuine consent requires that women not be implicitly swayed by social norms: They must be free to accept or reject a given practice without harsh social repercussions. But in Turkey, a country with a population that is 99 percent Muslim, the immense societal pressure to be a devout and practicing...
Second, we urge the Faculty not to let the meeting get bogged down by pontification and meaningless speeches. While the airing of dissenting opinions can help some professors make up their minds, too often the debate becomes redundant and unnecessary—especially on issues such as these, which have been before the Faculty’s consideration for ample time. The Faculty should put aside minor disagreements to focus on the benefits of passage and the costs of further delay. This meeting should not be an open forum for professors to discuss unrelated topics, but a constructive gathering aimed...
...primary on Feb. 19, meaning that voters are currently staring at mail-in primary ballots at the same time as they're trying to figure out their caucus locations. Even more confusing, Democrats use only the caucuses to apportion delegates, making the primary effectively meaningless for them, while Republicans use the caucuses to apportion 19 of their 40 delegates and their primary to apportion the rest. (The situation has an acrimonious, and convoluted history that involves a controversial victory by televangelist Pat Robertson in the state's 1988 Republican caucuses, which prompted an intervention by the state legislature that resulted...
...Clinton poked fun at this state of affairs on Thursday evening, provoking loud and knowing laughs from her Seattle audience. She then urged her supporters to ignore their meaningless primary ballots and instead focus on caucusing. "I need you to find where your caucus site is and to go and stand up for me," Clinton said. "If you stand up for me for a couple of hours on Saturday, I will stand up for you throughout this campaign...
...often war is condensed into meaningless Arabic numerals. It becomes place names and dates. It becomes a simple sum game of territory exchanged and penalties levied. The different wars (spoken aloud like different varieties of vegetables) acquire snappy appellations—The War on Terror, Desert Storm, The Great War, World War II—and little kids play them out in their sandboxes. War becomes a commodity sold as Hollywood movies and Toys “R” Us action figures. The cost of it, the real human cost of it all, is often forgotten.A.L. Kennedy?...