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...sectarian wars between Sunnisand Shi'ites would be comparable to a civil war in the U.S. between Southern Baptists and Roman Catholics. If Iraqis cannot tolerate slight differences in practice of the same religion, how can they embrace democracy? One of the foundations of our democracy is the acceptance of different ideologies, including religion. It's time for Sunnis and Shi'ites to get over their mutual 1,300-year-old grudge. If Americans can accept a multitude of religious creeds among their compatriots, then surely Iraqis can accept differences in the same religion...
Franklin, who now teaches Physical Sciences 2 and is one of the few women to lead an introductory science course at Harvard, came to Kirkland House to accept the Spark Award. The award was created this year by student group Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR) to recognize women who have inspired the next generation of women in science...
...Cassandra L. Forsyth ’08 transferred to Harvard from New Zealand’s University of Auckland in the spring of her sophomore year. An economics concentrator, she hoped to pursue a secondary field in government, but the department would not accept credits from her old school in New Zealand...
...Policies vary across the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The departments of government and economics, the two largest undergraduate concentrations, do not count credit earned elsewhere toward secondary fields, though they grant transfer credit to primary concentrators. But most secondary fields do accept a limited number of credits from other universities on a case-by-case basis...
There are folks who would wonder why I, a gay boy, would find these episodes funny. They might be appalled at my blockmates’ homophobia, and they might speculate that I pathetically accept their sensibilities, including their sick, hateful sense of humor as the price to pay for their friendship. Some of my friends and I—we all rigorously adhere to an ethic of cultural relativism—call these people, “The Bad People.” They are on par with people who make conversation during television shows, hold opinions about Undergraduate Council...