Word: reconsideration
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Whether this is really worth knowing in general, and at fourth grade in particular, depends on what each of us values. To me, for fourth grade, it would seem that this wouldn't rate high--not many 10-year-old children get summer jobs that require this skill. Certainly with...
However, the plan faces opposition. Some Republicans, concerned for states' rights, have objected to the plan's coercive enforcement provisions, under which states whose legislatures do not adopt the plan could lose some 50 to 90 percent of their convention delegates. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, has expressed...
A lot has changed in the past couple of years, however, that might persuade Congress to reconsider. Last September the National Bioethics Advisory Commission concluded that harvesting stem cells from discarded embryos is morally akin to removing organs from dead people for transplant. Also, the National Institutes of Health has...
At the very least, this justification for the Fay Prize's single-sex status is no more tenuous than the justification for maintaining the Frothingham's prize criteria of "manliness." In fact, by targeting the Fay Prize before deciding to reconsider the Frothingham, the administration revealed an intent colored more...
George W. Bush has long insisted that his attempts to be both "compassionate" and "conservative" are not diametrically opposed. But the South Carolina statehouse Confederate flag issue has forced the Texas governor onto a high wire between the two camps, as he tries to keep the conservative base he built...