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While Harvard students were spread across the world this summer, something important changed on campus. The Board of Ministry of Harvard's Memorial Church met to affirm the legitimacy of same-sex marriage ceremonies. Second to Stanford University, which spearheaded university recognition of same-sex unions earlier this year, Harvard marked itself as committed to the equal treatment of lesbian, gay and bisexual affiliates. And word spread, making national news...
...strongly encourage the Administration to re-evaluate randomization while this community's institutional memory still recalls the value of pre-randomized house identity. Harvard must affirm student's rights as adults to choose their houses and to define their own College experiences...
...Finance Ministry report that placed the 1997 budget deficit at 3.8 percent, short of the three percent needed to qualify for the euro. In a televised plea, Chirac, called on voters to reject increased taxes and public spending as the solution to rising unemployment. "If we want to affirm ourselves as a great economic and political power, equal to the dollar and the yen," the president said, "France must adopt the euro in 1999 and see its budget shrink." The president is gambling on winning early elections before enacting a new round of highly unpopular belt-tightening. Recent polls...
...Faculty's Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities, the administrative equivalent of a free speech bible, maintains the College must "affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate, and picket...and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice." But how can the College ensure a comfortable speech environment and to what extent is the nature of speech determined by its context...
...certainly one of the most powerfully joyous in the cosmology of practicing Christians, who can affirm: heaven is destination and reward, succor and relief from earthly trials. It is reunion with those we love, forever, as we loved them. It is our real home, our permanent address, our own true country. It is the New Jerusalem and Paradise Regained, the community of Saints and the eternal Eucharist; everlasting Easter and a million Christmases. It is an end to death's sting; it is the eternal, ongoing, ever growing experience of God. It is the ecstatic dream of St. John: "Holy...