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To be body-bag averse is far from shameful: no one should relish unnecessary casualties, and technology now enables Americans to do much of their fighting from a height or a distance in comparative safety.
ECONOMIST: Gains in Afghanistan, losses in the battle of ideas
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Simply put, it is not terribly good preparation for real life to teach students that they will be protected, by timid and risk-averse administrators, from hearing disturbing speech.
FORBES: Liability Reigns Supreme at the Corporate University
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That's a significantly higher level of income than the Staggses who describe themselves as risk-averse are likely to be able to produce from investing the same lump sum in, say, Treasury notes and then sticking to the convention of withdrawing no more than 4% annually from the proceeds.
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