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...soft money guidelines hinder the ability of those who cannot contribute large sums of money to have their voices heard; in other words, this forum for free speech which soft money supposedly creates is open only to those who can afford the entrance fee. Can we really call a construct of laws which virtually hands 800 people potential veto power over the wishes of a country of 300 million--in the presidential election, no less--a fair exercise of free speech...
...want to be good. We want to be bad. Between these sides of ourselves, we construct the wall of the state, which is porous, since it's made of ourselves (see Bill Clinton). Assuming that you're in favor of justice, anything that makes it stronger is good news, right? We have good news...
...originally conceived, the tutorial system was part of a larger plan to make the Houses not only residential, but also academic communities. As part of then Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell's plan to construct residential colleges modeled after those at Oxford and Cambridge, resident tutors were to be matched up with a pair of students who lived in the House and were in his field of study. The tutor would work with those students over three years on all things academic, ultimately helping them prepare for oral exams and the such...
...limited the conversation about diversity within the American population to a defined group of topics; they're only interested in certain categories, and those are the categories via which we are all counted. For example, you can't be African and not black, according to the Census Bureau construct. And that doesn't make sense...
...exhibit of this nature, the curator places heavy emphasis on the photographs as historical texts which raise questions about colonialism, Western depictions of the Middle East, Orientalism and way the western world used photographs to construct attitudes of "otherness." The photographs are largely selected for their historical value, rather than for their intrinsic artistic or aesthetic beauty...