Word: state
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
American Republicanism is focused on the defense of individual political rights against a distant, inefficient, and predatory state. The Founding Fathers did not particularly want to kill King George. They wished merely to ignore him. Nor did they wish to turn American society upside down: Revolutionary Americans, like most Americans today, basically thought that their quasi-stateless society was working just fine. (Well, sort of, in any case.) The American Revolution was not about social change, and it is very suggestive that American Common Law went through the Revolution basically unaltered. Individual rights are the key to the soul...
According to Lockman, universities have not adequately addressed their links to government funding to this day, adding that educational institutions have to be careful about encouraging scholars to receive state funding and avoid any research agenda set by government agencies...
...extraordinary rendition—the practice of kidnapping and transporting people to countries where they were tortured in secret without even being charged with a crime—have initiated lawsuits challenging well-documented and horrific abuses. But Obama’s Justice Department is arguing the same "state secrets" privilege the Bush Administration employed to have entire cases thrown out. As a result, not a single innocent victim of the torture program has had his day in court. Much of the conduct at issue—like the participation of the Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen DataPlan in the rendition program?...
...hardly a surprise that marijuana is consumed in a state that decriminalized possession of small quantities of the substance last year—it certainly isn’t to Steven G. Catalano, spokesman for the Harvard University Police Department...
...admit talented students of all backgrounds. Among the first National Scholars was Fred L. Glimp ’50, a proud Idaho native, whose visionary leadership as Dean of Admissions from 1960-1967 provided considerable momentum for this work. Chase N. Peterson ’52 from the state of Utah served as dean from 1967-1972 and led minority recruitment to new heights. And L. Fred Jewett ’57 from Taunton, Mass. ushered in the current era, urging Harvard to reach out to all talented students, including those from the rural areas that produced Glimp and Peterson...