Word: defaulting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...make sense to predict that, as clubsclose their doors on most weekends, the Houses mayagain absorb some of the social runoff by default...
...American Brooke Herlihy, playing at the No. 2 spot for the Crimson, accidentally jolted Yale's Loren Smith during a stroke, and the Yale coaching staff discovered that Smith had lost a tooth from Herlihy's inadvertent blow. As a result, Herlihy won her match by default...
...should be shocked at Harvard's official behavior as well. Because the UHS policy uses student money to subsidize elective abortions by default and with suspiciously inadequate notice, Harvard officially favors the exercise of the right to abortion over the exercise of First Amendment rights. This is a perversion of the University's priorities. Harvard should correct it by at least making the choice not to help pay for elective abortions as intelligible and accessible to students as the choice to help pay for elective abortions. And since UHS says that the abortion subsidy amounts to only "a few pennies...
...from them. It's just that it's simpler and more pleasant to think of them as "learning experiences" than to think of them as failures. And there you have it: someone else's conception of your own experiences, regardless of how useless it might be, has become the default...
...complete a pregnancy is emphatically not the default choice. To subsidize elective abortion is. Rather than argue whether this is a morally justified position, I want to make sure all Harvard students know it is Harvard's position. Because this policy so impinges the conscience of many of its students, Harvard should make it known more readily than it has. Daniel H. Choi '94 is a second-year student at Harvard Law School and a Ph.D. candidate in the Government Department...