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Martha Nussbaum: I think the message they should take away is that a lot of the legal discussions in this area have been influenced by irrational emotions of disgust and stigma, and that those are not good bases for law-making in a pluralistic society. And then when we remove that element and just look at the arguments in a clear-eyed way, I think it’s clear that the Constitution does support non-discrimination laws for gays and lesbians...
...think the issues about public sex were hard because, first of all, very little good legal analysis has been devoted to them. People just don’t talk about that very much. I didn’t want to scare my audience away by telling them “all this entails accepting sex clubs.” But in the end I do that because I think that’s what accepting the right of sexual choice entails...
April’s grown familiar with the E branch. She finished her bachelor’s eight stops away at Northeastern—classes at night, lab work during the day. Down the same tracks is the Whelan Lab at Harvard Medical School, where she’s pursuing a Ph.D. in virology. In between was Miles, who is, at present, in a garrulous sort of mood...
Sebastián credits the position with saving his grad school career, but there are downsides. Tutor duties take time away from research. So do the sophomore advising coordinator, teaching fellow, and exam grader positions he holds to earn a little more. This week, he received an e-mail from Kirkland saying he and Mariana have gone over their meal quota and will have to cut back. And for a while this semester, the students across the wall from Mariana’s room were having particularly loud...
...provides them a coupon for an ice cream cone at the Ben & Jerry’s a block away, so Miles gets a scoop of cookies & cream with rainbow sprinkles. It’s 20 to three. As they stand in line, April studies the daycare e-mail chain on her iPhone. Miles is calling her name, but she’s lost in thought and takes several seconds to respond each time...