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Oddly enough, I found Joel Stein's essay on horsemeat to be refreshing [Feb. 19]. I love horses and have been hoping for the passage of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention bill. But why is it acceptable to eat cows, goats and chickens and not horses? There are no rational reasons, only sentimental ones. I'm not about to go out and buy horsemeat, nor will I end my support of the American Horse Slaughter Prevention bill. But I'm going to stop judging those who do eat horse and don't support the legislation. Thanks, Mr. Stein...
...HOMESCHOOLERS AND THE NEXT FRONTIERWhile Norberg’s unconventional upbringing presented hardships in the classroom, it helped foster the individuality that friends say defines him. His friends say the true “Stephen Norberg” is the person writing his final exam essay in crayon or doing the butterfly in a speedo in three feet of snow, they say. They estimate 60 percent of his college diet consisted of root beer and cookie dough and 75 percent of his wardrobe is made up of flip-flops and Hawaiian shirts. But how much of this is homeschooling responsible...
When I told my parents I planned to be among them, they seemed a little surprised and politely asked me why. When I told the Quincy House business tutors, they did the same, and then handed me a ten page essay critiquing consulting as the Harvard student’s default dream job. When I went to OCS’s orientation session, they too reminded us that there are lots of other jobs out there, that eRecruiting companies represent only a small percentage of industries...
...satellite radio is about to become a reality.If approved, the changes to the Copyright Act would require all streaming media providers to use protected formats for any content on the Internet, satellite radio, or television.This proposal comes at a time when Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, posted an essay on his company’s Web site calling on the largest recording companies to allow online music sales without any anti-piracy software.Echoing the sentiments of many recording industry officials, Jobs discussed the impossibility of digital rights management (DRM) on all music sold.Most CDs have no DRM capabilities, meaning...
...aspersions on President-elect Faust’s stunning record of historical scholarship on the Civil War, slave owners, and the political economy of Southern plantation agriculture is a strange response from a student of history at Harvard College. In particular, his derisive citing of Faust’s essay analyzing the impact of the exaggerated scale of deaths during the Civil War––more than 4,800 soldiers died on a single day in Antietam––on American life and society is particularly unfortunate given the time in which...