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...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibilty; first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...
...that if a people does not have everything (i.e., all the land), it has nothing. The issue for him is whether Jews can say grace without being totally satisfied. Even more important, the question is whether religious loyalty requires believing that there is only one way. Or does Judaism affirm that no human community has access to the total truth? In responding to these questions, says Hartman, "the most profound Jewish values are at stake. Israel cannot claim the allegiance of Jews everywhere if the spiritual content of Israeli life is not what a Jew living anywhere would want...
...ironically, the only part of the U.S.S.R. that can be said to be fully democratic is Lithuania, which has held the U.S.S.R.'s first free multiparty elections. For Lithuania freely to secede from a nondemocratic union is not to undermine the idea of democratic government but, in fact, to affirm...
Readers are also voters -- or at least some are -- so it is not surprising that death can drive politics. This year it seems that a Democrat who does not affirm his affinity for snuffing murderers may as well concede before the campaign begins...
...hanging of a Confederate flag in the window of the Leverett Towers constitutes a legitimate--and insensitive--exercise of free speech. Accordingly, the Harvard community has a dual responsibility: first, to affirm the right of the student to display the flag and second, to register enough thoughtful disapproval to persuade the person to remove...