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...Many students, as we well know, make it out of these extraordinary environments—some earlier, thanks to scholarships, to prep schools, or elite summer programs and participation in organizations such as Upward Bound and MESA, and some later, through admission to top colleges, including Harvard. We applaud Harvard for offering unprecedented financial support to low-income students, helping many first-generation college students, including those from at-risk communities. However, as evidenced by significant research and a recent article in the Boston Globe, the inclination to believe that providing access and financial assistance is enough is both wrong...
...Justice David H. Souter ’61 informed President Obama of his intention to resign. As the search for his successor commences, we applaud Souter for his 18 years of service as a member of the Supreme Court’s progressive caucus and encourage Obama to nominate in Souter’s stead a justice of comparable judicial philosophy...
With approximately 1600 people in your class, it must say something when you're deemed one of the 15 hottest freshmen. We applaud you, you fresh-faced and virile youngsters. We look forward to seeing what three more years at this place will do to your physiques and states of mind...
...such as this offer an occasion for the church on all levels to examine our consciences regarding the integrity of our commitments." He's right; but scandals like this also prompt Catholics to more closely and critically examine the battered integrity of their church. And while they may not applaud Cutié for tasting forbidden fruit, they may not condemn him as harshly as the church thinks they should either...
Ethics and Extinction I applaud the tireless efforts to save endangered species and vanishing habitats, which you address in your cover story, but we need to begin to deal with the root problem: the exploding population of human beings [April 13]. How about a sterilization credit, like a carbon credit, to encourage people not to reproduce? We need to export and help finance information about all forms of birth control in all parts of the world, including the U.S. We have no trouble making decisions to limit the numbers of other species we deem overabundant...