Word: rationales
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"It is my opinion that America had to take a leadership role in this situation," he said. "The European leadership [in past Balkan conflicts] became tools in the hands of Serbian propaganda. Europe is just too much in the possession of nationalism to make rational decisions in this conflict."
The Supreme Court found that the Ohio law does not violate the U.S. Constitution because it passes the rational basis test.
Instead of allowing our desire for mastery over the unknown encroach upon our sense of wonder, we ought to cultivate that sense of wonder, or at least refuse to unlearn it. There is a middle ground between rational analysis and naive innocence, and a robust sense of wonder ought to...
Three things struck Holbrooke during his Monday meeting. First, there was a grim fatalism in the air. He also noticed a total lack of interest on Milosevic's part in a rational exchange of views and a total refusal to discuss Washington's positions. And finally, there was a sense...
At once immoderate and capricious, Milosevic has made himself one of the West's most difficult enemies. Lessons learned from one encounter do not necessarily apply to the next. Washington concluded after Dayton, when NATO bombers seemed to bring him to the negotiating table, that he respected what he feared...