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...measure by which we attempt to deduce the nature of reality regardless of our personal inclinations. Although, of course, the nature of human experience is such that objective truth will always remain elusive, we do have the choice to try to approach such truth as our ideal, rather than reject than reject it as inexpedient. If we do not hold the truth as sacred but instead choose to sacrifice it for ends we believe to be essential, then two inevitable questions arise: which ends and who decides? It is a disregard for the inviolability of truth that allows certain individuals...
Three months after the Task Force report was released, the council came out in opposition to the definition and the organization of the peer dispute subcommittees. On November 18, the Ad Board voted by a large majority to reject the Task Force definition and the proposed subcommittees...
...what is x? Just one of the most closely guarded secrets of the Central Intelligence Agency -- the budget for its National Foreign Intelligence Program. And now the secret is out. In a letter to Senators before he left, outgoing spy chief ROBERT GATES urged them to reject a $1 billion cut in the program's budget. Senators described the $1 billion slash as a 5% cut. If 5% of the budget is $1 billion, the program's budget must be $20 billion. Intelligence officials, with a wink, confirm the figure. Basic math skills + common sense = government secrets revealed...
...although professors reject the argument that Black faculty automatically serve as "mentions" for Black students, many said they feel they are role models and perhaps inspiration to younger scholars...
...avoid a full-blown root canal. "Basically, I'm preparing to have to dig deeper into my pockets in the near future," says Sherwin Eisman, the Republican mayor of middle-class Huber Heights (pop. 40,000), near Dayton. He fears that additional federal taxes will inspire local voters to reject any attempts to raise local levies, including a May ballot proposal to raise the city income tax from 1% to 1.25% for additional fire and police services. He says, "People tell me that they are sick and tired of taxes...