Word: rationale
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"In terms of questions of fair procedures, I actually have not found a school that's worse than Harvard," says Harvey A. Silverglate, a lawyer with the Boston firm Silverglate & Good, who has researched similar procedures at over 400 schools. “It isn’t a rational...
This makes sense from the perspective of the Development Office, which wants nothing more than money. But chances are our interests as students and as prospective donors don't coincide with theirs. While it's nice for Harvard if we get into the blind habit of writing the institution a...
Simply put, of the basic approaches to thestudy of American politics--the rational choicemethodology, the historical and institutionalapproach and the study of voting behavior--Harvardis not considered the best in any of the three.
Perhaps capital punishment, with all its inherent flaws, might be acceptable to those whose thirst for revenge cloud their rational sense for universal justice before the law. But the majority of us know better.
The Republicans' problem is the lack of a coherent, unifying agenda. The G.O.P. was founded on a bedrock philosophy in 1854: maximum individual liberty supported by a protective but not paternalistic government. Policies that flowed from this philosophy--from abolition to antitotalitarianism to rational distribution of wealth--united the party...