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...ought to promote. But beyond our objections to the discriminatory nature of the legislation, we are also concerned with the impact that such a law will have on sexual and health education. By denying students the opportunity to discuss “human sexuality” in any extracurricular context, the legislature is inappropriately denying students access to information about healthy, safe sexual practices. Withholding such information from students is reprehensible, unless the specific content clearly damages the student’s educational development. In this case however, the ban on sexual discourse certainly fails to meet that standard; rather...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Intolerance Codified | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...minimum, the story should have contained some context for the experiment, perhaps a doctor discussing the potential health impacts of repeatedly being a test subject. Or, The Crimson could have discussed the review process that all experiments involving human subjects must undergo...

Author: By Michael Kolber | Title: Ombudsman: Anecdotes in Context | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

...response, Obama’s senior strategist, David Axelrod, said the quote was taken out of context, and that Obama had consistently opposed...

Author: By Peter W. Tilton, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Democratic Advisors Debate at the IOP | 3/20/2007 | See Source »

...historical precedent and stressing the difficulty of mustering enough votes to bypass a Presidential veto. But Feldman, who was appointed in 2003 by the Bush administration to help draft the Iraqi constitution, emphasized Presidential primacy, saying that precedent was “not determinative” in the context of modern warfare, citing differences in scope, field communication, and feedback mechanisms that have fundamentally transformed the nature of battlefield command—certainly since the penning of the Constitution. More specifically, on the issue of President Bush’s order for a surge in troops, Barron thought Congress would...

Author: By Raviv Murciano-goroff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Law Profs Debate Executive Power | 3/19/2007 | See Source »

...offer. My philosophy for the column has always been to offer supportive reviews of books that I found interesting. There seemed little point in telling a comix-averse audience not to read comix. The perfect TIME.comix review would be a brief guide to how to appreciate art works whose context and language would be unknown to a large number of the general readership...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The End | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

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