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Gallagher responded in an e-mail to the committee about a week later, saying that Johnson’s opinions were “preposterous, specious, and demeaning...
...hope of shifting the debate on divestment from Israel to the real issue—the nature of the divestment campaign—and not the specious accusations regarding University President Lawrence H. Summers’ speech on the issue, I would like to suggest why I believe the campaign is properly characterized as “anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.” I would like to look carefully—if necessarily briefly—at the strategy of the campaign and the rhetoric of the petition, in order to show how it implicitly...
Officials at Brown and Princeton said they wanted to maintain autonomy over their own application processes. This reasoning appears specious; both are members of NACAC and are thereby obliged to adhere to its admissions guidelines. It is more likely that Brown and Princeton are worried that students they accept Early Decision, but who are also accepted Early Action at another university, might enroll at the Early Action school and break their commitment to attend the Early Decision institution...
...year, are being driven out of the business. Earlier this month, 600 doctors in Texas closed their offices for a day to protest this treatment, all the result of lawyers who know a well-insured doctor to be a sitting duck. Even if the claim against a doctor is specious, it can be cheaper for the medical insurance companies to settle quickly, rather than pay court expenses and risk losing a lawsuit—even doctors who have done nothing wrong are losing claims all the time...
Hence the administrative hesitancy to approve OutKast clearly rests on dubious grounds. Yet, Illingworth is a smart man, and I suspect that he knows that his arguments are specious. In fact, so do members of the HCC. Indeed, HCC members see Illingworth’s comments as a foil for other more problematic administrative intentions...