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...Harvard Foundation's full name is the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations. All the views of students with whom I have spoken and most of the views that were expressed at the debate entailed cultural and ethnic groups sharing common space, thus promoting the main tenet of the Foundation...
More than many other Secretaries of State, what Albright will do in the job grows organically from who she is. Her own history gave birth to this unshakable tenet: "I truly do believe in the goodness of American power. I don't just mean military force. I mean the role the U.S. can have in the world when properly used." Her own task, she says, is also Marshallian: to bring as many states as she can into the developed world's system of rule by law, of international agreements and of peaceful behavior...
Second, we do not condemn all Orthodox Jews for the actions of several radical individuals, so why do we condemn all Islamic movements for the actions of isolated groups? Yes, the man who massacred Palestinians in the Hebron mosque was probably violating every important tenet of Orthodox Judaism. It would be unfair to characterize all of Orthodox Judaism based on the actions of this one individual. Likewise, it is unfair to characterize every grass roots Islamic group as terrorists. True, some Islamic groups are fanatical terrorists--the Taliban in Afghanistan, for example. However, that does not preclude the existence...
...very things he accuses the President of being. Dole waited until the last few weeks of the campaign to raise ethics in a serious way, making him seem more expedient than honorable, the same thing he accuses the President of being. It seems a political illustration of Freud's tenet that we accuse others of the flaws we see in ourselves...
...should be allowed to do so under the law. To repeat the old adage, anyone old enough to vote and to be drafted, is certainly old enough to drink. Third, a basic premise of American liberalism is that freedom allows for the flourishing of virtue--why shouldn't this tenet be applied to mature drinking laws? Fourth, allowing those 18 to 21 to drink will produce a mature youth corps which very well might choose to regulate their appetite for drink with temperance...