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These days there are increasingly few "leas" from which to have such splendid visions. Modernity threatens the ability of the citizen to leave society, to venture out and stand in awe of the world as it must have looked on the fifth day. Theodore Roosevelt '80, the father of conservation in the United States, appreciated this reality and did more than perhaps any other American to preserve for future generations their right to escape into nature...
...think it's important to be honest but at the same time to be respectful of individuals," says Scott R. Boule, one of the four Kennedy School students who received anonymous hate e-mails after writing an op-ed piece for the Citizen, the Kennedy School's student publication, in support of gay rights...
Indeed, "naturalizing" a citizen is a way of honoring his or her efforts to become an American. Even though we acknowledge that the place and timing of birth is beyond each of our control, the process of naturalization recognizes that the American spirit of immigrants is born in the United States even if physically they were...
...denying legal immigrants this right, we are making a mockery of our Constitutional commitment to regard all citizens as equals in every way. The result of our Constitution's archaic stipulation has been the creation of a second class of citizens. While this second citizen must pay taxes like any other and is charged with the same responsibilities of naturally-born Americans, our Constitution reminds them that in only one respect they are not just judged by a different set of criteria, but are in fact not entitled to be judged...
...then, possibly, to fail in that attempt, which stands out as the holy grail in the immigrant's quest for equal status. Until the time when that right is granted, the antiquarian presidential qualification will continue to gnaw and prod at the effort to end immigrants' second-class-citizen status...