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...other hand, I know there’s a lot I don’t know about the world. I also want to be a thoughtful, thorough person and find that such desires often lead me away from opinions that can be easily explained over lunch. When looking at an issue—literary, political or school-policy related—I like to peer at it from a number of perspectives, to recognize and wrestle with its ambiguities. I realized recently that I like to write columns like I tend to write poetry...
...experiments, Harlow proved that love, despite what most of his colleagues believed, plays a crucial role in mental well-being. The idea that such a thing needed proving in the first place seems bizarre today. But as Deborah Blum explains in Love at Goon Park (Perseus; 336 pages), her thorough and beautifully written biography of Harlow, it made perfect sense in the context of mid--20th century psychology...
...undemocratic, but because he is Saddam Hussein. There is, after all, a distinction between a dictator and a murderous tyrant. It is Saddam, not the lack of democracy, that stands in the way of U.S. goals in Iraq. Nothing in the definition of dictatorship rules out cooperation with thorough inspections, opening the country to the international market, maintaining territorial cohesion and improving human rights...
...about which option to choose is respected except in extreme circumstances when there is imminent risk of serious harm and there seem to be no alternatives other than the ombudsperson taking some action. How the office functions is made explicit at the on-set of every meeting with a thorough explanation about what the office can and cannot do. The majority of my more than 600 visitors last year chose the option of dealing directly with the parties involved with their concern. Ombudspeople do not discourage people from dealing directly with each other. We help people figure out how they...
...went on to give a moving speech about the importance of a thorough understanding of the past, quoting President Harry S Truman in saying, “The only new thing in the world is the history you don’t know...