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...furthered the free-speech debate by informing students about the actual images that proved so provocative in the Middle East. In order for there to be productive debate on the merits of the cartoons and their publication, citizens (and Harvard community members) must actually see the images rather than accept mere second-hand accounts of their supposed religious insensitivity. The Salient’s bold move threw these cartoons into the limelight, as any student who glanced at the issue’s back page was forced to confront the images of the Prophet. When any paper chooses to publish...
There are various ways of addressing this concern, some philosophical and some pragmatic. On the philosophical end, one might question whether we ought to accept the “self-interest” model of rational choice foisted upon us by economists. After all, protest only seems irrational when “success” is so individualistically defined. On the pragmatic end, the public relations victories that human rights advocates are winning serve as evidence that one will not be alone in making ethical decisions and hence that such efforts at bringing about change need not be totally...
Tradesports.com does not actually accept bets itself, but allows people looking to bet in favor of a particular outcome to find people looking to bet against that outcome...
...University then tries to match the donor’s terms according to the University’s interests.“We always think...that this has to be useful 100 years from now,” added Rapier. Rothenberg said that the University is not required to accept a gift if its terms do not match the University’s aims.“You never have to accept an individual gift that you don’t want,” he said.Although the Challenge Fund does not have quotas about how the 45 professorships will...
...Ahmadinejad committing diplomatic suicide, considering how even Russia and China are now showing a degree of solidarity with the American-led pressure on Iran? Ahmadinejad, who came to power in an upset election victory last year, is a hard-liner. But not even moderate Iranian leaders accept Western demands that Iran completely abandon the right, guaranteed under the NPT, to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes. After six months in office, Ahmadinejad has concluded that no Iranian compromise will satisfy Washington. By restarting enrichment, says one Tehran analyst, Iran is simply saying that it will not permit the West to determine...