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...examples given above should give some idea of how ludicrous it is to propose a "more correct" way of celebrating Irish culture. But since Ms. Zaleskas insists that a mere keg of beer is inadequate to express her pride in her Irish background, I would like to remind her of the following: First, she is in the United States, not Ireland, and she cannot expect the citizens of this multicultural country, in their appreciation of a foreign culture, to meet her specific guidelines throughout their festivities. Ms. Zaleskas should be honored by the mere fact that Americans annually take...
Second, I would like to inform Ms. Zaleskas that there are very many people who actually do celebrate Irish culture as she sees correct. For example, within this past week alone, the Harvard Irish Cultural Society has sponsored a poetry reading by Seamus Heaney, a lecture by Northern Irish politician John Hume, a presentation of the film "My Left Foot and an Irish art exhibition currently on display on the second floor of Hilles Library. In addition, traditional Irish music is broadcast every day of the year on at least one radio station in the Boston area, including Harvard...
...their own graves. Now the Internal Revenue Service is asking U.S. taxpayers to audit their own returns. In an experimental program, the IRS will send letters to 2,000 taxpayers in New England and upstate New York with incomes between $50,000 and $100,000, asking them to correct suspected errors on their 1989 returns...
Kesler encouraged the audience to know the limits of reason. So, we must "know what reason can know so that we show dignity to what reason cannot know." According to Kesler, it is only through reason that we come to know what is correct for human beings to do and what...
...then says that "no" can mean anything. Mr. Morgan, what am I supposed to say to you if you want to have sex with me and I don't want you to? What am I supposed to do? Should I say, "No. And I am not being politically correct right now."? I don't know what your point was in writing this statement, but you have succeeded in doing exactly what the date rape educators on campus have been trying to teach us not to do. You have put all of the responsibility for an acquaintance rape on the woman...