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Throughout the course of a year of procrastinatory nighttime runs to CVS, I discovered that many of the evening workers there are Haitian. Coincidentally, so am I. The fact that I have a Haitian grandfather may seem, to some, an odd thing to bond me to the CVS employees. I...

Author: By Marina S. Magloire | Title: Our Place is in the Home | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

To the editors: In “Servitude Nation” (Op-ed, Sept. 18), Daniel P. Robinson criticizes efforts by Senators Obama and McCain and the coalition of 114 organizations called ServiceNation to promote voluntary national and community service. Robinson uses a series of “straw-men...

Author: By Ethan L. Gray, Mark A. Isaacson, and Kent Park | Title: Robinson Mischaracterizes Service | 9/30/2008 | See Source »

Team sports provides a constructive and regulated environment for man’s natural competitive spirit, cleansing what is barbaric in that impulse with intricate rules and attendant penalties all while ennobling the individual desire to succeed by directing it toward a larger, collective goal. Sportsmanship—which today...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: A Gentleman’s Education | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

For Robert W. Mack ’71, seeing hundreds of fellow LGBT alumni at Harvard this weekend was “like a mirage or a dream.”Alumni from all but two of Harvard’s living classes descended on Cambridge to celebrate the Harvard...

Author: By Mac Mcanulty, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gay Caucus Marks 25th Anniversary | 9/28/2008 | See Source »

Then there was her pained, and painful, response to Couric's questions about the Bush "freedom agenda" - the goal of spreading democracy in the Islamic world. Predictably, Palin repeated standard Bush platitudes about making "every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, respect for equality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viewpoint: Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Follies | 9/27/2008 | See Source »

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