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...most fascinating truth that the reader will take away from Cordingly’s book is not the fact that killer eye patches, the Jolly Roger, and screaming “Yaarrggh!” while pillaging a merchant ship for her booty were all indeed a part of pirate history...
Here, in the very heart of Veritas, if there is at least one truth commonly realized, it must be that a community as vibrant, diverse, and intellectually stimulating as ours has virtually no chance of survival without the presence of the greatest number of retail banking institutions possible. Unfortunately for those misguided entrepreneurs who pursue some non-banking related venture in the Square, the nurturing and manifestation of our collective destiny through this pervasive banking presence cannot come without a price...
College papers—such as The Crimson, the Harvard Salient, or the Independent—have a difficult task in deciding what counts as news. On the one hand is the journalistic pursuit of truth; on the other is the paper’s chronicling role within the community. In Duque’s case, it seems newspapers may have done more harm than good...
...default “print” option, newspapers need to think. The community’s benefit from reporting a student’s name, or exercising free speech for its own sake, does not always supersede the harm it does to the individual. Too much truth can be a decidedly bad thing, and blindly printing students’ names is a naïve way of avoiding a complex moral decision...
...Many intelligence professionals eschew torture because they know that it tends to yield the answers that the suspect thinks his interrogators want to hear - not necessarily the truth. In some respects, there may be a similar effect in trying to throttle the Palestinians into submission. It's not inconceivable that at some point Hamas might find a formula for recognizing Israel in order to put food on Palestinian tables. But such a recognition would speak more to the boot on their necks than to any change in their hearts...