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...Simons' could slow the exchange of information over the Harvard server and clutter student e-mailboxes, it undermines its own logic by conceding that filters could be put in place to restrain mass mailings. Claims that the "legitimate" user would somehow be punished by such a program are specious at best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Etiquette Is Dead | 3/15/1996 | See Source »

...moreover, reinforced growing resentment among Russians at what they regard as demeaning and condescending American treatment. Historically, the State Department has not made a habit of commenting on Cabinet changes or giving directions on economic policy in other countries. Making an exception in the case of Russia reinforces the specious but widely believed claims of nationalist politicians that the aim of American policy is to humiliate and weaken Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OUR OUTDATED RUSSIA POLICY | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...institutions have managed to commemorate their dead on both sides of the Civil War has not served to confuse their students or alumni as to where the institution stood in the conflict of 1861-1865. Of all the arguments against a Confederate memorial, this to me seems the most specious...

Author: By Peter J. Gomes, | Title: Civil Wars and Moral Ambiguity | 1/17/1996 | See Source »

...other side had a specious argument. They had as an expert witness a professor from Cal Tech who had a miserable time," he says. "He ended up making a strange argument and getting torn to pieces...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs, | Title: Professors Find Testifying Is a Trying Experience | 12/4/1995 | See Source »

...multiracial society." But judging by the initial 100,000 press run, the largest by far in the company's history, the Free Press also sees D'Souza as a moneymaker and is willing to profiteer on the obscene ideas he has packaged in the plain brown wrapper of specious scholarship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BIGOT'S HANDBOOK | 10/2/1995 | See Source »

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