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Many shots of who-knows-what deeper, we had exhausted the round of HUPD-busted dorm parties. An executive decision was made by someone’s quasi-operational mind that our brigade would begin rounding the final clubs in search of some still fervent Saturday night entertainment. It wasn’t long before we were giggling our way into a not-to-be-named final club...
...Cultural and religious fault lines have opened up around issues like stem - cell research, therapeutic cloning, assisted reproduction and euthanasia, but gay rights is perhaps the most divisive. In Spain, whose kings and queens were once the most fervent defenders of the Christian faith, the Socialist government has launched a radical reform of family law that will grant gays and lesbians full legal status as parents and allow them to marry. In Ireland, another former Roman Catholic bastion, politicians from all parties meet this week to discuss whether the constitution should be changed to give homosexual couples the same rights...
Through the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences Office of CareerServices, I learned of Goldman Sach’s present career opportunities. As asenior at the Harvard College, I have a fervent thirst to command the position ofAnalyst this coming fall...
...government can with a very light amount of due process and entirely without demonstration of probable cause bring to the surface personal details which are at best humiliating and at worst could do you long term harm. This isn’t all just theory, either: despite fervent efforts by the ACLU and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Yahoo! has, for example, responded to a number of subpoena requests by corporations for the names of employees who had been criticizing company management pseudonymously on stock market discussion boards...
...times resembles a floating five-ring circus of longtime Democratic operatives who have all sorts of views, allegiances and ambitions. That worked fine when it was up against Howard Dean's homespun Vermont militia. Against Bush-Cheney '04, a disciplined hierarchy run by Karl Rove and manned by fervent Bush loyalists who take no prisoners, it could be a recipe for a landslide. Second-guessing is taboo under Rove, chiefly because Bush trusts him completely. But it's more like a privilege of membership at Kerry HQ, with the candidate himself often joining the debate. "Their candidate knows what...