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...statement, Rockwell called the allegations by the whistle-blowers "totally without merit." Because of litigation, the company commented on only one specific point, maintaining that its ombudsman fully respects the confidentiality of employees who complain. Rockwell insisted that it "has always been and continues to be committed to taking every precaution humanly possible to ensure that concern for safety governs all activities...
...problem is so entrenched in our species that it can only be rooted in our past. (Anything rooted in our future would be too speculative to merit discussion.) The earliest human writers were Cave Men who recorded their activities in Cave Language each day with Cave Pens on Dinosaur Hide. This proved disastrous when the dinosaurs selfishly decided to sink into deep and ubiquitous mud pits that, for advanced scientific reasons, appeared directly under each and every dinosaur far more than 20 years...
...statement" of the piece thus does not merit scarce space. What is far worse than whatever offense might come to the reader over the matter of slurs against Jews or the elderly, however, is the offense such pieces are to the notion of quality writing. Materialism might be a problem in South Florida, or in all America, for that matter, but condescension, cynicism and inhumanity are certainly problems among student writers at Harvard, especially when they "roam the real world." I propose that good writing does not intend to shock with every line; nor does good writing rely...
...claim the ruling as some sort of victory. These are the same people who present Robert Bork's failed Supreme Court bid as proof of what Suzanne Garment calls in the current Commentary "[T] he liberal monopoly over the great academic institutions and even over the idea of intellectual merit itself." Whether mainstays of a "liberal monopoly" or not, those who run academic institutions have now been given the Supreme Court's go-ahead to advance their own views at the expense of all others...
THERE ARE students at Harvard who are quite happy with the academic schedule. There are also people at Harvard whose heads, which normally store important stuff such as thinking goo, are currently filled with a substance of no merit whatsoever. I don't mean to imply that there's a correlation between these two types of students--although a correlation obviously exists. I'm just saying that maybe the time has come for us rationally thinking people to sit down with the people who like the current academic schedule and beat them senseless...