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TIME once quoted this exhortation by architect Eliel Saarinen: "Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context--a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan." Similarly, we hope that this issue finds a place in your eye, in your mind and in your life. But we'd be content if it simply had the same effect on you as design does on British tastemaker Sir Terence Conran. "Believing in good design is like believing in God," he has said. "It makes...
...allotted $135 million to abstinence-only education, which not only forbids the mention of condoms by teachers except to talk about their failure and refers to heterosexual marriage as the only healthy lifestyle, but also forces teachers to tell their students that “sexual activity outside the context of marriage is likely to have harmful psychological and physical side effects.” Unlike in the 60s, the current administration is surreptitiously attacking our reproductive rights instead of launching an overt campaign. If we are not vigilant, we could wake up to find that our reproductive freedoms have...
...part of any recovery, particularly a recovery from the deep and successive traumas this economy has lived through in the past three years, from the dot-com bubble to 9/11 to the persistent disappointment of a 2002 spent waiting for a recovery that still hasn?t come. In that context, a broad, job-ful recovery by year?s end would be rather impressive, considering the last, jobless one (which surrounded the last Gulf War) took four years to flower. But it still pays to remember that even if the end of the war is the beginning of the recovery, this...
When is the last time that you had an informal discussion with your friends about slavery? Chances are, if you had such a conversation recently, you were either discussing slavery as a historical topic or as a philosophical construct. If you were discussing slavery in the context of current events, your conversation may have been about the issue of reparations. However, like the majority of Harvard students—and of Americans—you were probably unaware that slavery itself is not simply an institution of the past, but a current practice that continues to oppress tens of millions...
While we may criticize the Church for creating this situation, we need to remember that any faith institution exists both inside and outside of a temporal context. The religious truth the Church spreads has not changed in the 2,000 years since Jesus’ life; however, the issues of how to live these truths need to be addressed as cultures change. The godly men and women who have created doctrine throughout history have inhabited, for the largest part of the Church’s existence, cultures that have refused to tolerate homosexuality. Additionally, the Bible, which Christians believe...