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...called into question by some, who argue that it is unfair that large Houses and those with spacious common rooms, like Quincy and Currier, receive a disproportionate number of grants. While this may be true, the party fund best serves the campus-wide community by ensuring that a roughly equal number of parties are thrown every weekend by students who are genuinely enthused about throwing them, not by trying to space parties evenly throughout the Houses...
...genre’s implicit message is that society’s background conditions can never be equal; underserved advantage (and disadvantage) will persist indefinitely. The only solution is taking control of one’s life. The upshot of this outlook is an attachment to earned wealth. Why else should 70 percent of Americans support the abolition of the estate tax (according to The Economist), when barely one in 100 pays...
Modern women should consciously reject this age-old inferiority complex regarding men and shoulder the responsibility that equality entails. We need to stop perpetuating the idea of our sex as secondary by forcing a false male-female dichotomy where there isn’t one. It’s time to concentrate on other things—like education, politics, or scientific research. If we truly realize that we are primary and that we are equal to the Man, then it is surely just gratuitous to “Fuck?...
...After passing the property law (2,826 for, 37 against, 22 abstentions) NPC delegates dutifully approved several other measures with equal celerity, then trooped out under the imposing columns of the Great Hall of the People and boarded scores of buses waiting in an otherwise deserted Tiananmen Square. In a subsequent press conference before hundreds of reporters and photographers, Chinese Premier Wen wasn't asked about the property law. He was, however, asked about an article he penned recently that appeared to argue that it could be a century before China was ready for democracy. While Wen didn't confirm...
...Asim, 23, a computer science student watching a cricket match in a cheap kebab restaurant in Islamabad, agrees. "The people are angry. The law should be equal for each," he says. "You can't just make laws to suit you as you go along. This [Chaudhry's suspension] is not good for our country...