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...Thatcher, a member of the Harvard Republican Club, claims in her profile to be a “Moderate,” but has in the past told this very liberal writer that government should get off people’s backs, but should also ban gay marriages. Logically unsound, effectively intolerant and intentionally insensitive, Ms. Thatcher’s argument was classically conservative. Her social life will surely suffer, but Ms. Thatcher and her fellow conservatives donning the shameful cloak of the moderate must end the charade now and reveal themselves in all their American-flag-draped glory...
...understand Summers’ decision. In a letter addressed to HLS’ Lambda, a student organization that aims to provide a voice for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered community at the Law School, Summers correctly identifies the recent interpretations of the Solomon Amendment as “unsound and corrosive public policy.” And yet he goes on to provide an unsatisfying explanation for not challenging such a despicable policy. “Particularly in light of the highly constructive partnership that exists between higher education and the federal government in a great many areas...
...nauseate the entire medical profession. Applying medicine to ultimately enable the death of a patient flies in the face of the Hippocratic oath, and that prisons may have to resort to non-medical staff to administer the drugs should come as a loud warning sign that the ruling is unsound...
...told TIME that while collateral damage from U.S. bombing was less severe than anticipated, looting canceled out that advantage. "The Iraqis pull the wiring out, then the plumbing, then they set it on fire, so there is nothing left but the hulk of a building that is probably structurally unsound." The trashing of former government buildings was so extensive that 17 of the 21 ministry buildings the U.S. had planned to reopen were rendered unusable by the time occupation authorities got to them...
Klein's complaint about low-income families' not receiving the child tax credit from Bush's tax cut reflected unsound thinking. Overpopulation demands that no rational government provide economic incentives for further procreation. Six billion humans is way too many. Even if more people were needed to provide a larger labor force, we certainly should not be giving incentives to those individuals who seem to be least able to care for their children. The omission of the child tax credit from the tax-cut bill was arguably the best part of the legislation. MIKE WHITE Baltimore...