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...made by the individual, not the state. Some of Perry’s detractors have argued against his order for a different reason, suggesting that the vaccine will reduce perceived risk involved in premarital sex for young people and encourage what they perceive as destructive behavior. This argument is specious and moralistic; the opportunity to quash cervical cancer and other diseases far overrides the puritanical tendencies of a small contingent of the population. While the Texas example represents governmental overreaching, the impetus behind it is admirable. We hope that more states will find the middle ground and follow Patrick?...
...guided by Marxist-Leninism and Maoist thought." But as a high-school dropout from remotest Mindanao, it's not clear how much she truly knows or even cares about such matters. By contrast, Victor-a well-educated cadre from a "petit-bourgeois family" (his words)-gives an eloquent if specious defense of the N.P.A.'s core ideology. No communist state has ever collapsed, he argues, because none has ever existed. East Germany, Hungary, Czechoslovakia-none had "true" communist governments when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, while the Soviet Union and post-Mao China "were socialist in name but capitalist...
...documentary. Rather, it is a fictional account that dramatizes the nonfiction book by the same name, written by Eric Schlosser, the film’s co-author. “Fast Food Nation” imbeds facts about the American fast food industry in specious “real people” vignettes, hoping to make the statistics come alive with a Hollywood budget and a star-studded cast and crew. Cinematographer Lee Daniel has worked extensively with Linklater on past projects like “Before Sunset” and “Dazed and Confused...
...This civic spirit of Bombay is not well understood by the rest of the world. The week before the blasts, Reader's Digest came out with a specious, culturally biased survey declaring that Bombay was the world's rudest city?and the politest was that famed citadel of courtesy, New York City. "In Mumbai, they'll step over a person who's fallen in the street," the magazine quoted a Bombayite as saying. But as soon as the bombs went off, Bombayites stooped low to pick up anyone who had fallen in the street, and carried their blood-soaked bodies...
...Other students doubt the study’s credibility. “They should check their methodology,” says Wenyi Cai ’06. Jana S. Lepon ’08 said she finds the results troubling but agrees that they may be specious. “Perhaps people predisposed to passing on those disorders happen to eat more tortillas,” she suggested...