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...Shao Taipei Economic and Cultural Office New York City It is time for western countries to find alternatives to the U.N. not only because it is incapable of preventing wars, as Krauthammer pointed out, but also because it has become an ideological bureaucracy that regards all cultural values as equal. The U.N. has allowed Islamic member states to maintain Shari'a laws, which violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an agreement designed to promote gender equality and freedom of expression. While Islamic fundamentalists intimidate the West by manufacturing outrage against novels, cartoons, lectures, essays and theater productions...
...Jersey is unique among states in that its population overwhelmingly supports some form of equal partnership rights for gays. According to a Rutgers-Eagleton poll from June, over 66 percent of New Jersey residents are in favor of same-sex unions, while nearly 50 percent specifically favor same-sex “marriage.” Given the popular support for equal gay rights, the legislature ought to have seized the opportunity to voice the beliefs of its constituency. To do so would not have threatened their political careers, since such a bill would have merely been reflective of widespread...
...fundamental right, a right grounded in our nation’s conception of equality—and it’s the duty of the courts to uphold those rights when a legislature fails to. While we are unequivocally glad that the New Jersey Court unanimously agreed on the equality of rights, we cannot help but lament its refusal to make same-sex marriage equal in both name and content. Its decision to defer to the legislature on the question of nomenclature threatens to undermine the minority whom it is the judiciary’s obligation to protect. This decision...
...liaison would most likely be appointed by UC President John S. Haddock ’07, according to Anene. Sundquist said it was problematic that the board will be chaired by an administrator rather than a student. “Students need to be able to have an equal influence in setting the agenda, running meetings, and making decisions. For it to work, students would need to be co-chairing the committee, and thus being just as responsible for decision-making,” Sundquist wrote. —Staff writer Elaine Chen can be reached at chen23@fas.harvard.edu...
LONG ISLAND SHORES MINDY SMITH Smith getsfiled under country because her songs tell little stories (the title track is about a family reunion that ends with a trip to a grave), but she's really a hybrid of folk and adult pop: equal parts Patty Griffin and Norah Jones. For lyrics, this native New Yorker leans on just a few evocative nouns, and her melodies grow in the wide open spaces between delicately played guitar chords. Her singing on the standouts You Just Forgot and Please Stay is cool and restrained--not from an absence of feeling but from...