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...kind of access to media and money has taken on the job. In an effort to keep the discussion serious and avoid the appearance of being just another rocker against bad things, he refrains from treating Africa as an emotional issue. "We don't argue compassion," he says. His argument is pragmatic, not preachy. "We put it in the most crass terms possible; we argue it as a financial and security issue for America...There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than...
...area, however, I find myself explaining, more often than I'd like, a religion I do not believe in. Now when confronted with such questions as "How many wives does your father have?" I will simply refer people to your exceptional article and save myself an argument. KRISTEN L. BARLOW Washington...
...kind of access to media and money has taken on the job. In an effort to keep the discussion serious and avoid the appearance of being just another rocker against bad things, he refrains from treating Africa as an emotional issue. "We don't argue compassion," he says. His argument is pragmatic, not preachy. "We put it in the most crass terms possible; we argue it as a financial and security issue for America ... There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper ?by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than...
...either didn’t have the knowledge that would have prevented conception—a knowledge which many of us who are either more privileged or more educated take for granted—or whose contraceptive failed. Condoms break. Pills sometimes don’t work. And the argument that abstinence would have prevented such tragedies is an outdated and cheaply moralizing one. Most of us live in a world of which sex has irrevocably become an integral part. Arguing that we deny the right of abortion to women who became pregnant because of neglected or failed contraception?...
...Column, “Debunking the Senior Gift,” Feb. 27) has once again proposed the same old, tired reason that many undergraduates do not give to Senior Gift: some sort of complaint with the Harvard administration. For years, Senior Gift has been a victim of the argument that there are “better charities” more deserving of a Harvard undergraduate’s money (although, I must admit that Princeton...