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...parts of the HCCR come to vote that the Faculty will show a more unified and spirited tie to its changes. Now more than ever, the Faculty has the power to fully shape its students’ education, and if members wish to act as the educators that they claim to be, then they should seize this opportunity with the same fervor that defined the Summers turmoil...
People who doubt the truth of Darwinian evolution love to claim that there are no transitional fossils-no remains of ancient creatures that have the characteristics of two different kinds of organism, mixed together. If evolution were true, you'd expect to see them...
...live in an America where it has become normal to consider it inherently suspect to be associated with Muslims and Arabs? Press reactions—including Harvard student publications that claim to be neutral as well as those that are “conservative”—to a recent gift supporting Islamic studies at Harvard suggest that this is indeed where we live. The headline of a recent article in the Crimson Magazine reads “No Strings Attached? A generous prince left Harvard a hefty sum. But might his ties to the Arab world affect...
...Senate by self-proclaimed Christian and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, criminalizes exactly what Jesus asks of his followers–aiding illegal immigrants. And of all people, it was Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton who had the courage to point out the hypocrisy of many Republicans who claim to espouse Christian values but attempt to criminalize Jesus’ teachings. “It is hard to believe that a Republican leadership that is constantly talking about values and about faith would put forward such a mean-spirited piece of legislation,” exclaimed Clinton...
...Kurds' primary problem with Jaafari may be less his sectarian or Islamist inclinations, than his refusal to back their claim on the oil city of Kirkuk-and his willingness to consort with Turkey to prevent the emergence of a viable Kurdish entity with de facto independence. Again, Jaafari's position on this issue is shared by the Sunnis and the more nationalist (as opposed to Iran-inclined) Shi'ites...