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...have been working toward a resolution that would both affirm our policy of non-discrimination and maintain ROTC as an option for students attending Harvard," Rudenstine said...
...have been working toward a resolution that would both affirm our policy of nondiscrimination and maintain ROTC as an option for students attending Harvard," Rudenstine said. "While the outcome is not at all certain--and I want to stress that--the discussions have been serious, substantive and constructive...
...second, far more important reaction is confusion. How can someone "hurt" others with her views? Views can anger you, bother you, please you, affirm you, but I can't imagine them harming you. An opinion barks--often loudly--but it generally has no bite...
ANGELS ACROSS THE AGES. If there is such a thing as a universal idea, common across cultures and through the centuries, the belief in angels comes close to it. Jews, Christians and Muslims have postulated endlessly about angels' nature and roles, but all three religions affirm their existence. There are angels in Buddhism, Hinduism and Zoroastrianism; winged figures appear in ancient Sumerian carvings, Egyptian tombs and Assyrian reliefs. Visible or invisible, in disguise or in full glory, angels appear in more than half the books of the Bible: it was an angel who told Abraham to spare his son from...
This theme is hardly new, as Jesse Jackson and other black leaders in communities nationwide will affirm. But no one else has the president's power to draw public attention to an issue. Local concerns develop national importance when the president takes a serious interest in them, and Clinton's interest in ending urban violence appears serious indeed...