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...only thing I learned about extrapolation in my six-month ordeal was that my 14 on the first test and my 17 on the second test did not mean that I was going to get a 20 on the third test. The slope was just too risky to predict future scores...
...steady downward slope of Duarte's tenure could be charted from one October to the next. His first October, in 1984, was a time of triumph as he strode into the small town of La Palma for the first of three meetings with leftist rebel leaders. A year later, as hostilities continued, tragedy hit home when Duarte's eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, was kidnaped and held by rebels for 30 days. That October, Duarte personally supervised the complex negotiations that secured Ines' freedom, briefly abandoning his tough line with the guerrillas and freeing 25 political prisoners in exchange...
Mufson claims that a clause "simultaneously asserting the importance of academic freedom" will help. But this suggestion simply restates the problem. Where does academic freedom stop and harassment begin? Speech restriction is a slippery slope that should be avoided...
...revolutionary year of 1989, the world grew accustomed to the spectacle of ruling Communists stepping onto the slippery slope of power sharing, with no more enthusiasm than a condemned man mounting a scaffold, but with no more resistance either. However, that was in Eastern Europe, not the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was different: it couldn't happen there...
Adjudicating the merits of various types of speech places the University community on a slippery slope. Hastily attempting to regulate offensive speech is simply unacceptable to a community whose raison d'etre is the free exchange of ideas...