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...last case that dealt with the issue of pre-trial solitary confinement, it had already been proven that the defendant was guilty of committing crimes from within prison. Because the government has no proof that el-Hage would be a genuine security threat from within prison, el-Hage's solitary confinement was unjustified, said Joshua L. Dratel, one of the defending lawyers...
...what I find most questionable in Grass's interpretation of history is the very old and very false notion that our current problems are the legacy of the Enlightenment, that they are the fault of "cold reason," and that somehow the program of the Enlightenment has proven a failure. We've heard this before, from Romantics like Goethe and Blake and even from contemporaries of the Enlightenment like Rousseau. We've heard it from the extreme right (from Goebbels, for instance, and from Heidegger, who championed Nazism) and from the left (from Sartre and neo-Marxists like Adorno and Habermas...
Maybe because what the council has proven that what it does best--provide student services--has absolutely no relevance to student opinion. It's completely absurd to think we need a two-week election, complete with campaign finance rules, election commissioners and debates, to choose who will lobby the College administration for the long-anticipated three-ply toilet paper. Students are right to see these elections as a farce--not because the council is incompetent, but because what it does well doesn't require a democratically elected leadership. We're being asked to vote for a bureaucrat...
...hand, even Darling's detractors say he has a proven track record of getting the job done on council...
...Veterans such as Todor and Machorek were not the only swimmers with impressive individual performances. The freshman class, which has already proven itself to be an integral part of the team at earlier competitions, produced some of the most exciting swims of the meet...