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Imagine that Pappin had advocated the expulsion of African-Americans from the College—or Jews, or Muslims, or women—and grounded his argument in hateful racist, ethnic or sexist stereotypes. If this had been the case, I question not only whether people’s response to the letter would have been the same, but whether The Crimson would have published such a piece at all. The problem is that homophobia—of which Pappin’s letter is a particularly insidious example—is not being put on the same platform...
...Those of us who, unlike the authors of last week’s editorial, have not had our judgement (and sense of tonality) clouded by House pride are not so easily persuaded to love such intrusive clanging on our day of rest. The fact that the authors’ argument started out on a solid, economic base and then moved on to a childish rebuttal on whether or not we actually can fly to Mars is proof of how patronizing the response to the unnamed Russians became. If it comes down to “how symbolic they...
There are two arguments for this kind of “sin tax”—a tax designed by the government not as the most efficient way to raise revenue but as a means to steer peoples’ behavior away from a practice of which it does not approve. The first argument is that such a tax protects people from their own bad choices. This argument, however, is far less persuasive than the point that such a tax accounts for the actual cost of smoking to society. Nevertheless, the economic effects of smoking are difficult...
...boldly to expand the zone of stability and prosperity" by offering Turkey "a firm date" for starting talks on its accession to the E.U. While some European leaders - notably Tony Blair, Silvio Berlusconi, José María Aznar and Costas Simitis - agreed in principle with Powell's argument, many Europeans thought America's full-court press for Turkey - including phone calls from George W. Bush to several heads of state - amounted to meddling. At a summit of the European Council in Copenhagen last week, the 15 leaders of E.U. governments decided that Washington's version of boldness wasn...
...problem with this one is that there were definitions that were very old or very general,” Morrow said. “The argument was that ‘composition of matter’ includes a complex, living definition of matter, and that’s where the court disagreed with...