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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mandated that broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance, was meant to level the playing field. Congress backed the policy in 1954, and by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the "single most important requirement of operation in the public interest - the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fairness Doctrine | 2/20/2009 | See Source »

Health, by definition, is the sine qua non of everything else. If you're dead, serenity is academic. So we convince ourselves that while our medicine is strong and our doctors are wise, our prayers may heal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Biology of Belief | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...Barack Obama’s administrative appointments give any indication of future trends, an Ivy League education will be the sine qua non for entrance into the higher echelons of government—and there is no shortage of Harvard students lustfully eying such positions...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Rule of the Wise | 12/8/2008 | See Source »

...Thanks to postmodernism, we tend to see all facts as meaningless trivia, no one more vital than any other. Yet this disregard for facts qua facts is intellectually crippling. Facts are the raw material of thought, and the knowledge of significant facts makes sophisticated thought possible. Some information is important and some is not, and intelligence consists in knowing one from the other...

Author: By Alexandra A. Petri | Title: The Beginning of Wisdom | 11/24/2008 | See Source »

...Queen’s University is one of Canada’s most prominent institutions of higher education. Equidistant from Montréal and Toronto, Queen’s is the sine qua non of Kingston, Ontario, a town whose historical importance—it was once Canada’s colonial capital—has been sucked out of it by the growth of its two metropolitan neighbors. The university, meanwhile, has endured, as has a significant coterie of townsfolk—as one might expect, the two are at constant loggerheads...

Author: By Adam Goldenberg | Title: Boo F—ing Hoo | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

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