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Further, by labeling actual enforcement of the rule as “elitist,” you reinforce the notion that Harvard students should be able to get whatever they want, even if it means breaking rules. Even if we disagree on whether the rule is appropriate, I’d like to think that most of us recognize that it is still inappropriate to steal large amounts of food or treat the dining hall staff with disrespect. If someone wants to brazenly walk in without swiping, take food they aren’t paying for (causing food shortages...
...nation to war is the most fundamental decision a President makes," he says, "and there's nothing nuanced at all about keeping your promises. There is nothing nuanced about exhausting remedies that give you legitimacy and consent to go to war. And I refuse ever to accept the notion that anything I've suggested with respect to Iraq was nuanced. It was clear. It was precise. It was, in fact, prescient. It was ahead of the curve about what the difficulties were. And that is precisely what a President is supposed to be. I think I was right, 100% correct...
...point is not to equate stem-cell research with the Tuskegee experiments. But judging by our universal revulsion at the Tuskegee story, it’s clear that Americans have reached a bioethical consensus that firmly rejects the notion of sacrificing some human beings for the sake of (possibly) curing others’ physical ailments...
...last 18 months. Single-sex education also continues to be popular for non-public schools nationwide. The old Title IX regulations, however, only allowed families with the means to send their children to same-sex private schools; everyone else had to put up with a government-enforced notion of political correctness...
...understands that when we're going off to Africa or India, it's because we're lucky enough to have some money that we want to use to help improve the health of these people and give back in the right way. So they have a notion of that...