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...example of just how misguided faculty initiatives can get was the 2002 petition circulated by a group of Harvard and MIT faculty, students, and other affiliates, urging divestment from Israel and from U.S. companies that sell arms to Israel. This call for divestment was part of a much broader political initiative by the Arab League, which has since the 1940s declared a boycott of “Jewish products and manufactured goods,” ordering all Arab “institutions, organizations, merchants, commission agents and individuals...to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Zionist products or manufactured...
...Reilly wasn’t really concerned about the punishment of one man. He used the case to serve a broader agenda, an agenda that calls for taking sentencing decisions out of the hands of judges. But, by showing that he and his allies are willing to play politics with such an important decision, O’Reilly undermined his own argument. If justice, not politics, is to determine sentencing decisions, then judges, not politicians and pundits, must decide...
...Manliness’ in its earliest meaning actually had the broader sense of ‘being humane,’ not being virile, and both men and women are capable of acting with great courage and compassion in the service of humanity,” said Kirkland Resident Tutor Yi-Ping...
...purpose is to connect our resources with the people who need them.” Though unaffiliated with the HLS group organizationally and financially, the law school students and undergraduates would like to work together. “We’ll have a different approach, a broader perspective and the potential to do projects the law school can’t,” McLoon said. Leaders of the HLS advocates agreed. “The College Advocates can provide insights from a variety of disciplines and can look at human rights advocacy from more than a narrow legal...
...polites”) of the cosmos: that is, the citizen who conceives of him or herself not as belonging to the “polis,” a city to which he or she would owe loyalty, but to the universe or the world in a broader sense. The conversation is one above and across cultures—a conversation in which the very idea of essentially distinct cultures cannot be heard over, say, the Iranian shopkeepers of Appiah’s native town of Kumasi in Ghana, any more than it can be heard over a Vietnamese student...