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Commencement and the coming weeks are a fitting time to join with President Obama, to speak and act to end the ban on ROTC, and to affirm the message to all students and to our country that Harvard will always stand with our military in serving the nation...
...enjoy asserting meaning and power, then give men dignified aspirations, so they don’t assert their power on the dance floor. Affirm male friendships, bonds that serve men by providing forums for respect and codes of honor. When we treat men like sexualized predators, men can cunningly take advantage of this constructed freedom from virtue. Maxims like “Just get consent” and “Follow the rules” are sterile abstractions that lack exhortations to reform character...
...cannot “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” But even more strikingly, if the Court upholds Prop 8, the ramifications would be much more devastating than a speed bump on the road to civil equality. If they affirm that Prop 8 and the Fourteenth Amendment are not mutually exclusive, they would, effectively, overturn the landmark decision in 1967 that made bans on interracial marriage unconstitutional...
...realizing your capacities and going after your dreams, you are not just helping yourself but repaying a debt to this institutuion,” she says. Several of Wilf’s former professors affirm that their former pupil has lived up to the expectations of the University she admires...
...reality is far more complex than that snapshot, of course, but a survey of Obama's handling of the main strategic challenges appears to affirm the old Cold War dictum that domestic political partisanship ends at the water's edge...