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...first, it doesn't seem like a bad vision. If idle talk about grapes and American foreign policy is standing in the way of universal keycard access, away with such hot air by all means. But in reality, numerous fallacies undergird the Stewart-Cohen program for change...
Such is the point: secrets and lies pervade the selection process. Although the committee has postered in various houses for suggestions from seniors, the names voiced in the process are non-binding suggestions only. The values which undergird those preferences are second to those of the elected committee. Now, this process ought to be sufficient since committee members are elected representatives. But is George Clooney all right by anyone's standards? Certainly...
...worried that expansion could incite anti-Western factions in Russia. But there is currently no national figure around whom opposition is likely to coalesce. Congress backs expansion. As is often the case, conviction on Capitol Hill is wider than it is deep, but in this case two added factors undergird support: a lingering belief that anything Russia hates cannot be bad, and that 20 million American voters of Eastern or Central European heritage want their homelands protected, as they were not a half-century ago. That will guarantee a big legislative victory. Honest coordination with Russia along the lines...
...rather than discuss directly Choi's views on diversity and elites, I would take issue with his ideas about knowledge and education, ideas that undergird his entire argument...
...high place at Harvard about her past. She did not do so, a transgression anyone with any sense of compassion should be able to understand. But that she did not made it imperative for Harvard to rescind its invitation to her--for the sake of the principles which undergird this community...