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...marry” is completely irrelevant to the question of gay marriage because, quite simply, gay marriage is not actually marriage. As a New York Appellate Court put it in Hernandez v. Robles (2006), “until a few decades ago, it was an accepted truth for almost everyone who ever lived…that there could be marriages only between participants of different sex,” whereas interracial marriage has always been between a man and a woman...
...professors hope to have HDRB concentrators proficient in multiple scientific disciplines and aware of the practical applications of those disciplines. “I believe that graduates in this degree will be better prepared for almost any aspect of the life sciences as it relates to business, technology, medicine, science, engineering, politics, sociology, than perhaps any other scientific discipline,” says Chien. “It encompasses a lot of the features of the complexity of modern science in a modern world...
...Tocqueville had been born a black woman, what would she have said about America? Social studies concentrators will never know. Those who have taken the concentration’s much-feared introductory social theory course, Social Studies 10, know that the syllabus is comprised almost exclusively of white, European, heterosexual male theorists. The strikingly homogenous syllabus speaks to the existence of a social studies ideology that we—all Harvard students—should not accept...
...that a sport so dominated by one country had no place in an international competition. This logic represents a flaw in the management of Olympic sports. The goal of the games is to bring the world and its greatest athletes together, not to remove sports that have been won almost exclusively by a single country. In the 2008 games, China swept all three medals of the table tennis tournaments, and yet no action will be taken to rectify this—nor should any action be taken. Furthermore, much of the world is physically incapable of playing or training...
...comprise only 271 square miles in total - is mostly controlled by family clans, and setting even small patches of it aside has proved problematic in the past. In the early 1990s, the U.S.-based Nature Conservancy tried to survey land in Pohnpei for a proposed watershed-management plan. "We almost got macheted to death," says Bill Raynor, who moved to Pohnpei from California 30 years ago and helped establish the Conservancy's presence in Micronesia. "None of us wants to walk out to the communities with a finished plan produced by university experts. That...