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Solutions on the Front Line In El Paso, which is receiving a stream of Juárez exiles like Rojas, plenty would like to see an even broader shift in policy. The city council recently voted unanimously to ask Washington to consider legalizing marijuana, whose casual use is widely considered no more harmful than that of alcohol. The move would seriously crimp the drug cartels' cash flow, estimated at more than $25 billion a year. El Paso's mayor vetoed the resolution, but "the discussion is changing," says council member Beto O'Rourke, who insists the U.S. has for too long...
...essentially a life science with some elements of the social sciences—making it profoundly different from the archaeology and social anthropology tracks within the anthropology concentration, according to anthropology professor Daniel E. Lieberman ’86. “What we do, the questions we ask, the techniques we use, the issues we ponder...are so divergent from those of our colleagues in anthropology,” said Lieberman, a professor in the biological anthropology division. “It no longer makes any sense to be in the same department...It’s come...
...cities all over the world, from Boston to L.A., Montreal to Fresno, Moscow to Sao Paulo, and Paris to Beirut, host thriving Armenian communities made up of scattered survivors and their descendants, all of whom have a story to tell. And, when we do talk to them, instead of asking, “Was it a genocide?”, we should simply ask, “What happened?” That way, instead of feeling the pressure to shape such devastating experiences to a label, we can let the content of history speak for itself...
Harvard originally banned ROTC from campus 40 years ago, amid anti- Vietnam War sentiment. Since then, Harvard has continued to ban the program citing the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which prevents openly gay people from serving in the armed forces...
...rationale for the standing policies could change if President Obama follows through on campaign promises to reevaluate the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies...