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...winner of the first bout. However, it was a close decision that elicited boos from the audience. Liu calmed the crowd. “Everyone’s entitled to their opinion,” he says over the mic. “No one has to defend me.”More rappers take the stage, each with a “Yo yo yo!” Verses flow. Profanities abound; Felton’s hopes for a clean show are clearly dashed. The crowd celebrates disses. One competitor raps: “I’m kinda...
...understand the sentiments of people who support Romney’s proposal out of their concern for the children who are caught in the middle of this mess. While many of them might support the right of gays to adopt children, they are not so adamant to defend this right if it means that abandoned, endangered children will not be able to find homes as a result of Catholic Charities losing their license. But considering that Catholic Charities arrange an average of 37 adoptions per year, it seems possible that these adoptions can be arranged through other adoption agencies...
...great day to be a solider or a cadet.” The cadet who has chosen to contract steps up to the flag, and McGonagle leads the cadet in the oath of enlistment. “I do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me...” They end with...
...editors: Professor Laurel T. Ulrich’s op-ed (“The Revolution at Harvard,” Mar. 3) attempts to defend the pedagogy of her department against charges that basic areas of American history, such as the Revolutionary War, are neglected so that faculty members can teach the narrow and sometimes ideologically charged topics central to their own research but peripheral from the point of view of students looking for a broad and general perspective. Ulrich’s piece prompted me to go to the department’s online website to see what?...
...pact aimed at ensuring peaceful nuclear development. Through this agreement, the U.S. is tacitly but effectively aiding India, despite its longstanding defiance of the NPT, to develop a better and stronger military nuclear program. Iran and North Korea could not have asked for a better occurrence to defend their respective nuclear ambitions—not to mention the Bush administration’s now-hypocritical stance on Pakistan’s nuclear technologies...