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Franklin used Mrs. Dogood to attack the theocratic rule of the Puritan establishment and the link between church and state that was then the very foundation of Massachusetts government. At one point she asks, "Whether a Commonwealth suffers more by hypocritical pretenders to religion or by the openly profane?" Unsurprisingly, she concludes the former is worse, and singles out the Governor, a minister who had become a politician, as an example. "The most dangerous hypocrite in a Commonwealth is one who leaves the gospel for the sake of the law. A man compounded of law and gospel is able...
...various parts together and realized the special importance of the events this year: In July, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is expected to announce its decision in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health, a case that could grant legal unions to same-sex couples in the Commonwealth. Pride 2003 was, the Boston Globe reported, “a reminder to thousands of onlookers that a battle is being waged right in court right now over same sex marriages...
Last month the Crimson progressed to the round of 32 of the NCAA team championships for the second straight year, but this time it was in more dramatic fashion. Ranked No. 40 at the end of the year in the ITA standings, Harvard hosted No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth in the first round of the tournament. Riding the home crowd’s support, the Crimson upset...
Highlights Crimson comeback against Brown to go undefeated and win the Ivy championship. It is Harvard’s 12th Ivy title in the last 15 years. In the opening round of the NCAA tournament, the No. 40 Crimson upset No. 17 Virginia Commonwealth, 4-3, to advance to the round of 32 for the second consecutive year. Harvard takes ECAC fall championships for first time since 1999 with victory over top-seeded Virginia Tech...
That year, Harvard sold its white elephant to Commonwealth Energy System for $147 million, roughly one-fourth of the plant’s construction costs, adjusting for inflation...