Word: belief
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...basis of a group of people’s color, it is only right to fill in the blank white space with the black that should have inhabited it a while ago.” This person’s question did not surprise me. It just confirmed my belief that the history of black people has too often been seen as separate from the history of our nation, and, subsequently, skin color has indicated propriety over history when, in fact, all American history is equally all of Americans’ history...
Contrary to popular belief, we Harvard students do know how to party. As the rising number of alcohol-induced visits to Harvard University Heath Services (UHS) attests, we know—perhaps too well—how to unwind in the most traditional sense. But Harvard also features unique opportunities for undergraduate fun-seekers. Weekly Undergraduate Council party grants for in-room events enhance Harvard’s social scene, grants which are unknown at the vast majority of American universities. Many universities do not even allow their students to throw parties in their rooms. And although Harvard...
...also eager to point out ways in which the legislative backlash may be misguided: Pfizer spokesman Jay Kosminsky says that a problem with some current state laws, including Oklahoma's, is that they exempt liquid or gel-cap medications and multi-ingredient medications that contain pseudoephedrine, in the mistaken belief that those items cannot be cooked into meth...
...theme in Bush’s speech that both troubles me and gives me hope. While Bush mentions terrorism as one of the reasons we must pursue democracy across the world, it seems to be more of the catalyst to this whole enterprise. What grounds it philosophically is a belief that all human beings have equal moral worth and deserve democracy because it is an inherent good. This gives me hope because it is a profoundly humanist statement from a man who has been criticized for his irresponsibility with human life in Iraq and other places...
...raft of recent books have toasted the Founding Fathers--particularly Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence. That open letter to the British Crown gave us our most eloquent enunciation of our belief in individual liberties. But it remains at core a historical document with no legal standing. It is, by contrast, through the Constitution--the governing instrument that Montesquieu inspired and James Madison nominally fathered--that we organize and regulate our hectic American works and days. So why is there so much clinking of fine crystal for Jefferson while Montesquieu has gone missing...