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...LSAT, which administers the test, announced Monday that starting in June 2007, the reading comprehension section will include a comparative reading portion and the writing section—which is not currently scored—will have one essay prompt instead...
...conscientious objector during the Vietnam War, in fact (see the interview with him on page B2). But this thin volume reflects two decades of his rethinking on war’s permissibility and the proper role of law—a rethinking that he says was prompted by questions from students who urged military intervention in war-torn Bosnia and Darfur. The result is spectacular. Kennedy’s book is extremely nuanced, as it should be, given his subject. And the prose is immensely readable: clearly expressed, full of examples to highlight abstract points, and organized so well that...
Kennedy does note that international law has its importance in determining what constitutes a just war, but he makes a convincing case that the law’s “humanitarian potential”—its ability to prompt humanitarian interventions in places like Bosnia and Darfur—is overstated. The solution, Kennedy argues, is to ground just war doctrine in ethics...
...networking software that allowed users to share files and printers; in Orem, Utah. Noorda coined the term "coopetition"-companies making products that work together. But he famously engaged in a long, ultimately fruitless battle with Microsoft-which in the 1990s devoured much of Novell's market share-that helped prompt his retirement...
...voice of a generation speaks but nobody’s around to hear it, does it still make a sound? This is the kind of question that might provoke a grimace from filmmaker Andrew J. Bujalski ’98; indeed, this prompt is exactly the sort of empty cliché his films refuse to embrace. Further, the “voice of a generation” is a label Bujalski refuses to accept: “Go out and poll my generation and see how many of them feel like I embody their voice,” he says...