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...nature of the U.S. military and the perceived difficulty in disentangling the military from politics. “At the ground level, it doesn’t matter,” said Harvard Extension School student Randall Edmonston. “You have to throw out your own personal beliefs??separate your politics from your mission.” Many of the panelists said officers should stay above the political fray. “I believe the military should be an apolitical institution,” Brooks said. “We’re serving the American...
...much the same basis. A great many U.S. leaders—not least the current president—have been sincere advocates of Protestantism, but it would hardly be fair to associate all Americans with the terrible things that some people have done in the name of their Christian beliefs??remember that Christianity has been used to justify slavery, lynchings, Crusades and many other bloody wars, Balkan ethnic cleansing, etc. There are apparently people in Saudi Arabia and its government who support terrorism, just as there are apparently people in America and in our government who support...
...says Valente, appropriately enough a mechanical and material science and engineering concentrator. “I was agnostic for a while, and probably by the end of high school, I was an atheist or humanist.”Valente laughs about the semantics involved in defining his beliefs??”you can keep throwing words in,” he says—but on the whole, he avoids labeling himself an atheist. “I’d much rather call myself a humanist than atheist, because there’s a certain stigma...
...Norwegian and Danish flags, threatened the Brussels office on January 30th. Only then did the EU speak out; EU Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik expressed the EU’s “solidarity with our northern colleagues and the freedom of expression…and the freedom of religious beliefs?? and said that it “strongly rejects” Muslim threats...
...Thernstrom said that two major problems facing higher education today are “a growing gulf between political and ideological beliefs?? and a “teach your own politics” approach by faculty members. He said he joined the BAA to “combat this tendency and encourage a more balanced view on what’s going on in the world...