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...minor blip in the unstoppable progressive march to further realms of modernity. And, as a practical matter, it’s already been widely implemented by live-in couples, with the hushed complicity of a University that has largely abrogated its role as a stand-in for absent parents.What bothers me about the issue is not co-ed housing but the inflated rhetoric and sense of entitlement employed in its defense and justification. Yesterday, on a lopsided 31-1 vote, the Undergraduate Council (UC) declared that students enjoy a “right to self-determination in deciding with whom...
Minus the external conditions in Williamsburg, Harvard also had to deal with an on-court problem: the return of Horned Frogs No. 1 and national No. 12 Nicole Leimbach, who had been absent for the teams’ last competition...
...least one arena in which an ethnic North African can hold his own with native Spaniards. Not that Savalli thinks of himself as African. His home country is France. Born in the southern city of Arles, he's a product of the kind of integration that seemed so absent during the recent French riots: his mother was born in Morocco; his father comes from Italy. He has never set foot in North Africa, does not speak Arabic, and frequently eats pork. And, he says, "the Muslim Matador that people speak of - he is another person, not me. I'm French...
...Even before agreement is reached with Russia and China, the U.S., Britain and France will seek support from the remaining ten members of the Council - Argentina, Tanzania, Congo, Ghana, Denmark, Greece, Japan, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia. But absent any smoking-gun evidence of Iran maintaining a weapons program, and considering Washington's credibility problem after the Iraq WMD fiasco, the U.S. and its allies may struggle to maintain the momentum of efforts to turn up the heat on Tehran. Indeed, their best hope may lie in Iran rattling its own sabers so much that it actually alienates the two powers...
Prof. Ulrich, let me tell you something about my peers: we are in no danger of becoming fact-spewing automatons able only to dish out the who, when, and where of historical occurrences. We are rarely incapable of forming an opinion, even absent those aforementioned facts. Attend a random undergraduate section, and you’ll see what I mean...