Word: rationales
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The steps we have taken to protect ourselves from terrorism (not counting the military effort to stop it at the source) seem either farcically trivial or farcically excessive. Is there a rational middle ground?
That is precisely why today we cannot allow bad guys like Saddam to get their hands on nukes: not merely because a crazed Saddam might actually use them on us but also because a rational Saddam, one not interested in committing suicide by attacking us out of the blue with...
Lansing, the subject of an Intimate Portrait this week on the Lifetime channel, says her mother was her first role model. "When my dad died when I was 9," says Lansing, "I watched her take over the real estate business in Chicago. So many of my movies are about a...
Of course, our life-changing decisions are rarely that rational. For some women, even a small chance of having their own baby may be worth all the risks and uncertainties in the world. "When you so desperately want a child, you are willing to take a chance," says Christia Murdaugh...
In the end, Harvard students look to rational, quantifiable reasoning when pressed to evaluate political issues. It took the catastrophic idiocy of the living wage sit-in to jolt Harvard students into looking with evaluative eyes at their political surroundings. For this, if nothing else, I am indebted to the...