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Including these initiatives in the Higher Education Act will reflect the fact that colleges are partners with their communities and can strengthen each other. At a conference I convened in Boston in January for Massachusetts college presidents to press the concept of university-community partnerships, the response was impressive. It is clear that colleges, students and communities will all benefit from closer ties...
...Adeline L. Naiman '46, also an active Radcliffe graduate, said while she supports the concept of women's colleges, Radcliffe needs to "put up or shut up" at this juncture...
...what owns a public life? Surely not, in an age of celebrity babble, the public person who lives it. And not some over-delicate concept of historical truth. Gosh, no; didn't Shakespeare write docudrama about all those Henrys and Richards? He didn't? Well, close enough. And if we hate ourselves a little for loving our public legends too much, shouldn't we be able to get back at them by faking a few saintly relics...
Gandhi today is up for grabs. He has become abstract, ahistorical, postmodern, no longer a man in and of his time but a freeloading concept, a part of the available stock of cultural symbols, an image that can be borrowed, used, distorted, reinvented to fit many different purposes, and to the devil with historicity or truth...
...searches, we should also engage those who find the concept of religion abhorrent, divisive and destructive. They too have thought about religious issues and come to very different conclusions. As someone who considers himself some-what religious, I respect these principled atheists more than those who participate in American secular religion-by-default...