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...easy to view Daschle’s withdrawal as a boon for the Obama administration and a strong symbolic stand against corruption. Robert Reich, for one, praised it as a sign of “no tolerance?? for “the way things used to be done.” But with Senate Finance chairman Max Baucus expressing doubt that health care reform will happen in 2009, Daschle’s departure will in all likelihood perpetuate “the way things used to be done” in the American health system. And when said...
...made some mistake in our past,” she said. “How would we feel if this policy was applied to us, and do we think it’s an appropriate policy?” Others pointed to “zero-tolerance?? disciplinary actions as being problematic. Committee member Luc Schuster questioned whether it was appropriate for a student who committed one infraction to receive a five day suspension, a possibility that the current policy allows. “We want to make sure our intervention strategies are effective...
...even the most ardent skeptic or even atheist—to whom this tolerant regime agnostic to moral or religious questions might first seem appealing—must confront difficulty when this “tolerance?? applies to sects not historically seeped in such cultural relativism...
...which promotes tolerance as a principle that permits all sorts of divergent and incompatible beliefs but accordingly forbids intolerance; and the other, which sees no reason to privilege any belief, even the objective good of “tolerance,” and puts “tolerance?? and “intolerance” on equal moral footing...
...Advocates of “tolerance?? here at Harvard and beyond ought to be very mindful of which version they inadvertently are promoting...