Word: validated
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...largest course at Harvard with dozens of TFs, is indistinguishable, content aside, from a course on Livy's history of Rome, where ten undergraduates meet with a full professor and no TF at all. If we are to believe the administration that both these approaches to teaching are valid--and I do--then there is no harm in letting the students choose the approach that suits them in a given area of study...
...reporters for his anti-union position during a bitter 1995 strike at the Detroit News. Former Detroit News reporters also contend that, under Giles, the paper published biased and slanted accounts of the strike. Based on independent reviews of the Detroit News' coverage, these accusations seem at least partially valid...
...convention speech, Rice took a couple of sideswipes. She warned that the U.S. can't afford to become the world's 911 number - a reference to what GOP heavyweights see as the administration's inconsistent and misguided policy of "humanitarian intervention." Valid criticism, perhaps, although it's also worth remembering that the defining humanitarian debacle of the '90s - the death of 18 U.S. soldiers during a botched raid on a Somali warlord in Mogadishu -occurred in the course of a mission bequeathed by the Bush administration...
...White House counters with the valid point that the end of the Cold War spawned multiple crises on more fronts than any previous administration has ever had to deal with. Even then, the charge sticks - the administration has clearly lacked any guiding framework for dealing with those crises and shaping its priorities. President Clinton has, for example, spent a considerable proportion of his foreign policy energy over the past two years searching for an elusive Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. But Republican critics, while supporting these efforts, are concerned that relationships far more fundamental to U.S. national interests, such as those...
While reasonable, moral and intelligent people have valid arguments for or against the death penalty, one thing rings true: the decision is too important and too serious to be dictated by the whims of politics. While I am glad to see a life spared, at least temporarily, Bush's flip-flop from his apathetic stance on previous cases is a real disgrace to both our justice system and our choice in political candidates. ROBERT M. RADESKI Lake Gregory, Calif...