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...facing the criticism of the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Conservation District Commission, a city board with the power to forbid construction, Harvard has completely redrawn its plans and faces many more months of negotiations in the neighborhood approval process...
...commission--a city board with the authority to forbid construction--responded very positively to the shift, in a turnabout from the critical tone that had characterized previous meetings...
...contrast, irrational to forbid capital punishment. One can support such a course only, ultimately, on unprovable and somewhat vaporous grounds - in the name, perhaps, of a principle of moral evolution, a kind of hope...
...will be elected president. They have protested that President Barbie is another example of our society's double-standard: That a man is rewarded for intelligence and hard work, while a women is only allowed to achieve success if she fits our culture's standards of beauty. God forbid we have a frumpy woman president...
...taken a position on homosexuality outside a court case. "The anti-gay view is never communicated to any member," Wolfson says. "The freedom of association turns on what brings members together. And scouting is not about bigotry." (Interestingly, the Girl Scouts have an antidiscrimination policy that is understood to forbid bias against lesbians--though Girl Scout leaders aren't supposed to display their sexuality...