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Galbraith was named "Humanist of the Year" last year by the National Association of Humanists--an association of those who say they reject all faith and endorse only those judgments which are made by the rational mind.
But do students have to risk expulsion and declare virtual war on Harvard to be given a high priority? The University drives students to adopt extreme tactics, which it then claims to abhor, by blocking all alternative routes. Rational arguments fall on deaf ears. Undergraduate Council studies take light-years...
Even more so than the bomb, the committee found "unconscionable" the use of the fire as a "tactical weapon." Yet, what is so demonic, so "unconscionable" about the tactics of letting the fire burn to force the people out of the building, is that it's so rational. So pathologically...
The cigarette manufacturers, of course, applauded the secretary's decision. Walker Merryman, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, a lobbying group, said: "We support the secretary's decision.... We hope the [educational] campaign will be factual and provide a rational basis for a free and informed choice, which all adults...
On Daniel Ortega's comment that Reagan is not rational. I don't find him very rational. Well, he's rational in his belief, and that is he is a dyed-in-the- wool believer in the totalitarian Marxist government, which he has.