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Your letter argued that the University's investment in our education has far exceeded the cost of tuition, and that this investment constitutes a bequest from earlier alumni to us--a bequest which it would be selfish not to support for future classes. In some ways, we agree with you...
Instead, proponents of the offensive names deny the very existence of other people's feelings. By refusing to change these names, they are refusing to acknowledge the sincere feelings of others and consequently their worth as human beings. They are saying, in effect, "You are not important."
There are many groups at Harvard-Radcliffe serving women, yet rarely do any collaborate on projects or even sit around and chat. Oddly enough, students have not looked to Radcliffe to ameliorate this rift. Many see Radcliffe as an impotent, insignificant, even inferior version of Harvard. Students ask, what has...
To look beyond the eccentricities of Marshall Applewhite's creed is not to condone their odd assumptions--any more than one condones by saying, "I don't know how she could marry that spacey pagan." It is simply to acknowledge ignorance. "There is no one alive today," Arnold Toynbee once...
I am a former commissioner of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and must point out that Eric Pooley's sharp criticism of the agency [BUSINESS, March 17] fails to acknowledge the real measure of success of the NRC and those it regulates: there has never been a commercial nuclear power plant...