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...leaves one with the nagging suspicion that Lee was not as ignorant as he now claims, and that his opposition to ROTC's return is purely a function of students' outrage...
...military's function to wage war and to defend the country. It is the University's role to promote academic freedom and the open exchange of information. These two goals are incompatible, in time of war or peace...
...Form follows function," architect Louis Sullivan once said, but in today's literature, function more often follows form...
...solving them can be difficult. City bureaucracy often has a life of its own, with each city agency performing its own particular function in its own particular way. An outsider trying to get anything done in a city government must clear a path through an administrative jungle simply to understand what is going...
...theory goes on), those Democratic victories are tainted because of gerrymandering by state legislatures, most of which are controlled by Democrats. Gerrymandering certainly happens. But gerrymandering hardly explains why the Democrats have a large majority in Congress. Constituency election systems inevitably exaggerate majorities; that is part of their function. (How many times did you hear that Ronald Reagan carried 49 of 50 states? Yet he got barely 29 out of 50 voters.) In fact, though, the Democratic majority is not all that exaggerated. In 1988 in elections for the House, Democrats got 53% of the votes...