Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead of waiting for our instructors to challenge our X, Y proclamations, we might reshape ourselves in the liberal tradition and throw off the shackles of identity labels. We might choose to resist the urge to adopt opinions that appear to derive from our identities and instead cloak ourselves in the liberal traditions of open-minded observation, logic, and close analysis. Instead of sticking by our favored X, Y constructions, maybe we should instead subscribe only to a single shared maxim: As a student, I feel curious...
...left out the perspective of adoptive parents. They are required to jump through many legal and social hoops to adopt a child. When they get a child through legally binding adoptive procedures, they provide all the necessities of life that natural parents would. But what rights, courtesies and considerations are available to the adoptive parents? The possibly fragile foundation achieved by those adoptive parents through years of love and support may now be jeopardized by open adoption files. ROBERT ERDMANN San Diego...
...Harvard-affiliated woman was sexually assaulted inside Byerly Hall early Tuesday evening, according to Harvard University police--just hours after hundreds of students rallied in the Yard advocating that the University adopt tougher policies against sexual violence...
...anti-sweatshop policy that we adopt must include such a requirement," a statement released by the University read...
According to Allan A. Ryan Jr., an attorney at the Office of the General Counsel and Harvard's chief negotiator on the issue, the University will not adopt a separate policy until the Ivy League schools work out a uniform agreement. But someone has to take the first step, and this leadership responsibility should fall onto Harvard's shoulders. A successful University code against sweatshops--one which has involved students in its development and implementation--would send a powerful message to the outside world...