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...nine areas like the Core Curriculum. Such a system would suffer the Core’s chronic problems; it would be a contrived and complex system that pigeonholes students into taking specific classes and creates captive audiences with no incentive for professors to improve.Proponents of Moral Reasoning, however, claim that the University has a unique ethical mission to educate informed citizens who have the tools to think critically about moral issues. By forcing students to read great texts in political and ethical theory, they argue, Harvard can get students to start thinking about key questions and potential answers. Moral Reasoning...
...straight to the administration.But the response wasn’t quite what they’d hoped for.“What I got wasn’t discrimination,” Myers says. “I was an oddity, different than anything else.” He claims that because the administration did not know how to respond to the needs of a newly visible minority, they simply chose not to respond at all. Myers graduated in 2000, and the drive to change the policy was all but abandoned. In 2004, the BGLTSA tried again, launching a successful...
...thrive, a holy war between Christian, Jewish and Islamic factions must be avoided. It is time to bury the sword and put on the mantle of love that should be worn in churches,synagogues and mosques everywhere. Paul L. Whiteley Sr. Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Before the usual voices claim that the sectarian violence in Iraq is evidence of the futility of toppling Saddam Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East - Iran - is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Its hand shows up in not just Iraq but also Syria and Lebanon...
...went to court and proved my case,” he said of the earlier arrest. “I will do the same thing again.” Although Purdy has not yet hired a lawyer, he said he will hire one if the need arises. Purdy claimed to have no knowledge of the rape accusations until he was contacted by the press two days ago for comment. “I don’t know who is accusing me,” he said. “I don’t know what the situation...
...Before the now much-disputed election that brought these hardy souls to stand vigil, people in Minsk were making bets on how resounding a victory Europe's "last dictator," as Lukashenko is widely known, would claim in his third presidential race. Pessimists expected him to win hands down with some 78%, while realists expected Russian President Vladimir Putin to instruct his vassal to restrain his usual bad manners and go with a more reasonable...