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...outlawed any use of torture. Were the U.S. to make such a decision, it would reflect preexisting domestic laws, such as the Army Field Manual and bring the country in accordance with international law, Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Moreover, the use of torture undermines the morale of U.S. troops due to the prospect of reciprocation of such methods by their enemies. It is also likely to outrage any international actor, who cannot understand why the U.S. refuses to treat others by the same standards of humane treatment required at home by the U.S. Constitution. No better...
...general education looks like other than to highlight interdisciplinarity. At future faculty meetings, the stickiest point will be the three-by-three system—as many faculty members will likely object to a general education structure that doesn’t explicitly require math, or life sciences, or moral reasoning, or foreign cultures. But the answer is simple. If professors teach their courses well, students will come. We look forward to a new paradigm of general education, one where students are empowered with options and individual faculty are empowered with the responsibility to engage students in interesting, worthwhile courses...
...author of a 2002 University of Arkansas study, summarized, homophobia is “not a conceptually accurate [term].” That is because homophobia implies a pathological disgust tantamount to anxiety or fear of homosexuality. In reality, participants in the Arkansas study reacted with “moral contempt” to homosexuality...
...Democrats feel they're only three or four more empty gestures away from a complete moral victory." --ED HELMS, Daily Show correspondent, on Democrats forcing the Senate into closed session to discuss Iraqi prewar intelligence...
...common, and most students shrugged it off as only a minor problem. A number of parents--some of whose children carried a 4.0 average--sought to have their kids classified as special-education students, which would entitle them to extra time on standardized tests. "Kids develop their own moral code," says Demerath. "They have a keen sense of competing with others and are developing identities geared to that...