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My use of the word "recommend" is not accidental. Clinton's decision is an imposition to the people of Puerto Rico because it will mean that bombing in Vieques will occur for the next five years. But to the Navy it is only a recommendation that any following U.S. President...
The campaign seeks to gain the right for immigrants who are not citizens--but who are often parents of children in Cambridge schools--to vote in School Committee elections.
One feels almost inclined to applaud the brazen insensitivity of last Wednesday's Conservative "Coming Out" Dinner. Here, under the guise of good-natured mockery, we are presented with an appropriation of the discourse of "coming out" that utterly disregards the real experiences of being a despised minority.
Conservatives would have us believe that this is not a groundless appropriation, that they are in fact a persecuted and marginalized presence on this campus and elsewhere. While it seems monstrously obvious to note that the conservative opinion goes far from unrepresented (one need only look to the Harvard Magazine...
Implicit in this "humor" is the assertion that the endangerment suffered by minorities in general, and queers in particular, is also illusory. They suffer discrimination; we only cry it. We are at pains to note that no conservative has lost his job, been disowned by his family, expelled from his...