Word: rationale
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But as rational as the new requirement would be, I fear that far too many undergraduates will view it as just another hoop to jump through. For all that we clamor for more faculty advising, more peer advising, more concentration and pre-concentration advising, we are remarkably unresponsive when such...
Security in the Global Market Columnist Joe Klein's "It's Economic Security, Stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public-relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net...
What's the first thing you do if the ground beneath you starts to rumble and the walls begin to shake? Grab the kids and run? Check your home-insurance policy? Fall on your knees and pray for deliverance? All logical enough reactions, but not your very first one. Instead...
Our report on farmers' protests throughout the Chinese countryside elicited heartfelt sympathy from readers who are appalled by that government's corruption, land grabs and failure to provide basic services. But there was also alarm over what a destabilized China might mean for its neighbors "Inside the pitchfork rebellion" [March...
Before the usual voices claim that the sectarian violence in Iraq is evidence of the futility of toppling Saddam Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East?Iran?is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Its hand shows up in not just Iraq but...