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Ronald F. Thiemann, who is dean of the Faculty of Divinity and O'Brian professor of divinity, gave an invocation addressing the need to amend the problems of the world outside of Harvard...
...there are problems with this collaborativeleadership approach. All goals must be private orvery vague, so as to allow his cabinet to acceptand amend them successfully...
...have expected from the hysterical predictions we made." Americans United director Barry Lynn notes that "in most school districts, students are spontaneously forming clubs and acting upon their own and not outsiders' religious agendas." A.C.L.U. lobbyist Terri Schroeder also supports the Equal Access Act, pointing out that the First Amendment's Free Exercise clause protecting religious expression is as vital as its Establishment Clause, which prohibits government from promoting a creed. The civil libertarians' acceptance of the clubs owes something to their use as a defense against what they consider a truly bad idea: Istook's school-prayer amendment. Says...
...precedent, Lewis suggests that colleges should acquiesce to these things instead of libertarian sentiment. Yet I had believed (and hoped) that colleges might be somewhat countercultural. A ban on smoking shouldn't become right merely because it is politically palatable; for the same reason, the College shouldn't amend its position on affirmative action in response to Proposition 209's success in California...
...thing to consider, says Doyle, is amending a previous tax return. You have three years to do that. If you sold a house a couple of years ago and were over 55 at the time--and did not take the $125,000 exclusion--you can amend that return and take the exclusion...