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Sometimes it is tempting for Harvard students to dismiss school spirit as infantile or irrelevant. But students and faculty should be proud of their football team. Varsity athletes don’t compete every week for their own aggrandizement, but to add to the prestige of the University. Every victory that our sports teams achieve shows that Harvard students can excel outside of the classroom as well as within...
...film attempts to make Newman into a hero with the quietly dramatic ending. However, it is hard to dismiss the prejudice and hatred he had for Jews throughout the script. In reality, he is no hero—he is an everyman, one who has striven his entire life only for calm, order and self-preservation. When he becomes associated with the people he hates, he comes eventually to realize several things about the nature of prejudice and the experience of being victimized mentally and physically. However, his actions are by no means heroic, and so Focus sends a powerful...
...person’s personal lifestyle and sexual preference is his own business,” he said.“The Religious Right, I can dismiss them out of hand. But feminism is a different issue...
...April 13, 1999, the Harvard Faculty voted to dismiss Joshua M. Elster, class of 2000. After over a year of legal and academic proceedings and extreme public humiliation, he was told to get out. He was convicted of one of the most serious, and common, crimes on campuses across America—rape...
...dramatic way we have renewed our commitment as a nation to defend innocent human life. These considerations follow a recent national discussion about ethics and public policy: President George W. Bush’s Aug. 9 decision to restrict federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. While critics dismiss the decision as merely political, we insist that our country’s concern for human dignity requires the rejection of a utilitarian view of human life...