Word: rejections
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...Provena overly harsh? Patrick Coffey, a lawyer for Provena, says the Dumas signed forms promising to pay their bills and "agreed that the charges were fair. We reject the notion of any legal basis or merit to their claims." But the state of Illinois revoked a tax exemption for a Provena hospital based on findings that the hospital wasn't providing enough charity care; Provena is appealing...
...pushing aside issues like health care, jobs and education. Defending America is good, but under what circumstances? The question Americans want answered is whether they are better protected now or have been made more vulnerable to attacks. The candidates should address the host of vital issues facing Americans and reject the trivial personal smears. Collins Onuoha Berlin Bush is quoted as saying "I'm not the historian. I'm the guy making history." Yes, but what kind of history? Hitler and Saddam were also the guys making history. It is amazing and frightening that the head of the U.S. military...
While we recognize these dire circumstances, we reject calls for prematurely leaving Iraq. Although we were not in favor of the war at its outset, much of our opposition was rooted in the fear that invading and destabilizing Iraq would ultimately make America less secure. We had severe misgivings about this administration—so influenced by extreme ideologues—and we doubted its resolve to invest properly in the foundations of a new nation...
...Office of Undergraduate Admissions ponders how to reject 90 percent of Harvard applicants, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) is doing some rejecting of its own. Not normally known for its commitment to exclusivity, HUDS has broken in the new year by giving the thin envelope to Cheerios, Golden Grahams, and a smattering of other contenders for a coveted spot in the bowls and bellies of hungry Harvardians...
...questioning defective doctrine from an intellectual and theological position, using the Koran, the traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and ijtihad, or critical reasoning, as ideological weapons in the war over how Muslim communities define themselves. Islamic scholar Amina Wadud notes that we are emboldened to take public action to reject the way extremists have defined Islam since 9/11. We are in the midst of jihad li tajdid al-ruh al-Islami, a struggle for the soul of Islam...