Word: correctable
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...only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if the cost is manageable. A more idealistic version advocated by Seth Bonder, president of a Michigan think tank called Vector Research, would encourage the Pentagon to invest in R. and D. but actually build new weapons only if they would correct an impending imbalance with the Soviet Union; it should pass up those that would give the U.S. a destabilizing military advantage...
Given Whitehead's position as chair of the Overseers' Executive Committee--which sets the Board's agenda--it seemed as if Tutu's assessment was correct, and that divestment would again be a major issue for the Board...
...authors of How Harvard Rules are by no means the only University critics who buy into the mystique that the University exists as a world unto itself. This newspaper, for example, has unswervingly cowtowed to the "politically correct" beliefs of the moment for most of the past 35 years. But every time The Crimson appends a class year onto a Harvard graduate or capitalizes the "u" in University, it lends strengthens the idea that Harvard places an indelible stamp on the forehead of all those who cross its path...
THIS smugness makes the PC ideology defeat itself. By dividing the world into the correct and the wrong, PC advocates ignore many of the real issues behind campus controversies...
...lesson from John Stuart Mill. If we do not listen to abhorrent ideas, our own are valueless. They become totems that we carry around simply because everyone does. To quote a popular cliche, the essence of intellectual progress is the clash of ideas: when there is only one "correct" idea, everything stagnates in a bath of tepid, kneejerk liberalism...