Word: systemic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sometimes I wonder if the house system is still somewhat flawed for placing so much athletic prowess in one house...
...planned a screening of the hardcore pornographic film, “Pirates II: Stagnetti’s Revenge,” last April. By implementing this measure, the Maryland State Legislature overstepped its bounds. With the December 1 deadline approaching, the legislature should either allow defiance within the university system to continue without interference or, even better, reverse its misguided legislation...
...would likely have drawn a costly and drawn-out court case. Civil-liberty disputes are often watched carefully by individuals and groups who are not directly affected by the policy in question. This makes it likely that, even had a low-level court found the policy constitutional, the university system would have then been mired in months of appeals...
Though the University of Maryland schools may have been driven by practical considerations as well as moral ones, their decision to neglect to develop a policy was a principled stand. It is undoubtedly difficult for a school system that includes parents as some of its main constituents to defend the right to watch porn. Yet by putting constitutional rights ahead of easy moralizing, the university has shown an admirable commitment to the rights of its students...
...certain European political and intellectual circles, such talk would hardly turn heads. But those three men wagging their fingers at the free market were thought to have their capitalist bona fides as part of a generation of European business and government leaders who had pushed for reforming the welfare system and opening up the job market. Often in open ideological war against the entrenched interests of labor unions and leftist politicians, the likes of Sarkozy and Tremonti had long insisted that free-market reforms were the only way to create a more dynamic Europe in an increasingly competitive globalized economy...