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...information on the whereabouts of the al-Qaeda leadership, but defense sources told TIME that any prisoners now in U.S. custody know little, if anything, about bin Laden's coordinates. While there is a genuine debate inside the government about whether he is still alive, there is far less argument about what will happen after Washington is able to confirm that he is dead. A U.S. official told TIME last week that it is widely presumed that al-Qaeda sleeper cells will take retaliatory action once the terrorist leader is killed or proved dead...
Albert S. Cho ’02, BGLTSA co-chair in 2000, makes a similar argument...
Connerly said Edley’s argument overlooked racial diversity that is already prevalent, in part due to increasing rates of intermarriage...
Civil disobedience was never meant to be easy. Your opponent in an argument is going to make you work hard. And penalties and rules by their nature need someone to enforce them. As Summers explained in a recent interview with The Crimson, “It’s essential to the doctrine of civil disobedience that those who…violate laws and break rules accept the consequences of that.” After all, what does protest mean if it costs you nothing to protest? The point is that you feel strongly enough about something unjust that...
Harvard’s coverage of these fields may very well be thin. But this argument portrays ethnic studies as only a means of obtaining courses to fill the ranks of fledgling departments, courses that may have little to do with the concept of ethnic identity. Latin America and Latino America are very different subjects, and it’s hard to see why their history or sociology must be studied under the same rubric of “ethnic studies”—implying that some groups and regions are “ethnic” while...