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...taxes), but the hallmark of his "New Patriotic Challenge" is not so much prudence as heroism--the willingness to sacrifice, to suffer pain, even to die, for a worthy cause. Heroism is most closely associated with war, and references to war run throughout McCain's rhetoric--not only with regard to himself and "The Greatest Generation," but to faith, party politics and most everything else...
Stanton Professor of Urban Policy and Planning Alan Altshuler, who is also the director of the Taubman Center at KSG, said he wanted to give Taubman the benefit of the doubt with regard to the antitrust allegations...
...merit to both perspectives. Obviously, the military should not be a testing ground for theories of social justice. When it comes to war and peace, we do not have the luxury of running controls or tweaking variables ad infinitum; if the experiment fails, men and women die. In this regard, the callous disregard for national security evinced by those who spout entitlement talk is contemptible. At the same time, the exclusive emphasis of many conservatives on unit cohesion and effectiveness is more than slightly disquieting. Developed to its logical extreme, it can lead to--indeed has led to--truly totalitarian...
...Harvard intellectually seems closed with regard to ethnic studies," he said. "They see it as just a passing phase. If that's the attitude, then clearly it's going to take a long time to change...
...Frum seems to hate the '70s, but at the same time, to regard the decade as a necessary social shaking-out. He says the decade "left behind a country that was more dynamic, more competitive, more tolerant, less deferential, less self-confident, less united, more socially equal, less economically equal, more expressive, more risk-averse, more sexual, less literate, less polite, less reticent...