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...practice known as correspondent banking, in which U.S. banks provide banking services to overseas banks. U.S. banks sometimes don't seem to mind that the banks they're helping--from whom they are hauling in large fees--traffic in crime money. Or that these banks are, in some cases, mere shells with no physical presence anywhere beyond perhaps a post-office...
...this, also, we must understand as we confront our enemies—that however much these Islamo-fascists hate America, they hate the Jews more. For years, this has been portrayed as a matter of mere anti-Zionism, of political opposition to Israel. Such a view is dangerously naive. The Arab press, whose excesses have long been ignored by the Western chattering classes, can be compared in its poisonous rantings only to the anti-Semitic propaganda organs of Nazi Germany. And in the fevered minds of Islamic leaders, from clerics to politicians, every hoary anti-Semitic legend seems...
...that ROTC isn’t the club for them. We seem to recognize that in an organization where survival itself depends on individual competence and absolute trust between members, there can be grounds for having rules that differ from what we normally deem acceptable. In this light, the mere fact that a restriction exists, or that it is group-based, doesn’t make it discriminatory. What really matters is whether there is a reason for the restriction. What, then, of “don’t ask, don’t tell...
...mental gymnastics to leap from that principle to the conclusion that any group-based restriction is unjust. If Harvard wishes to trivialize the importance of military service by turning its back to the cadets and midshipmen of ROTC, it ought at least to justify its position with more than mere assertion. ROTC detractors can only win their case by proving that prohibiting homosexual behavior is unnecessary and persuading us that we should be more worried about whatever harms arise from that prohibition than about promoting the national defense...
...students, and it even has a motto: “aut viam inveniam”—either I will find a way or I will make one. The college boasts a wide range of interdisciplinary majors, and a marginally cheaper tuition than Worthington at a mere...