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...INTERESTED IN BURUMA'S commentary on the cult followings that have developed in postwar Japan and elsewhere. All religions, however, have at their core a tenet that insists the individual is secondary to a superior force. So long as we allow others to do our thinking for us, we will continue to be led by those who insist they know best...
First of all, the fact that post-modernism posits a claim and argues for it is a violation of its most fundamental tenet (who is to say that one argument is superior to another?). But even the post-modernists are prepared to drop their non-confrontational, self-righteous facade--albeit at the price of contradicting the very core of their philosophy--in the name of the cause...
...fundamental tenet of atmospheric chemistry is that ozone depletion is controlled by nitrogen oxide radicals and the hydrogen oxide and halogen radicals play a much smaller part," Anderson says. "We have experimentally shown that in the lower ozone layer, the hydrogen oxide radicals are on top and the halogen radicals are dominant. The nitrogen oxide radicals play the smallest role at less than 20 percent...
What these dissenters must realize is that the Church doesn't make its rules according to a pleasure-maximizing calculus. If you're Catholic, you subscribe to the basic tenet, built into the faith, that the Church's positions on issues spring directly from the word...
...determination of the current refugees to leave the island works against a basic tenet in the strategy of Jorge Mas Canosa, chairman of the Cuban American National Foundation, a leading voice of the exiles. Accused of being every bit as autocratic as the dictator he despises, Mas Canosa threw his support behind Clinton's decision to bottle up the refugees to keep the pressure on Castro. Mas Canosa insists that the Administration's economic crackdown and its refusal to deal with Castro will eventually embolden Cubans to drive him from power. "We all want a peaceful solution in Cuba...