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...wasn’t until the mid-19th century that Harvard began to move away from its theological foundation and towards a humanistic philosophy of education that emphasized reason and intellectual freedom. The modern research university Harvard is today is the culmination of this secularization. But with recent headlines such as “Harvard committee proposes compulsory religion course for undergraduates” showing up in major international news outlets, one might question whether the decision to include a “reason and faith” requirement in Harvard’s new general education report was circumspect...
...than a mistake - it was a huge strategic blunder that will take months if not years to unwind, that diverted the military's attention from finding Osama and stabilizing Afghanistan, that cost thousands of lives and eventually half a trillion dollars. Rather than creating an island of stability and freedom in the Middle East, the U.S. so far seems to have created islands of a different kind...
...offers compelling support to the argument that for a significant portion of North Americans—namely the tens of thousands of African slaves in the British Colonies at the time—it was the British, not the American colonists, who offered a surer shot at freedom...
...book, Schama traces the path of “Black Loyalists,” slaves in Revolutionary America promised their freedom by the British in return for their military service against the incipient Continental Army of incensed patriots...
...friendly city." Wakim has also benefited from a flurry of direct-mail ads and television spots attacking Mollohan for the federal funds he has steered to the non-profit groups Those ads - including one mailer that screams, "The Worst Tradition in Government" - are paid for by the Economic Freedom Foundation, a not-for-profit 527 political organization that has bought ads in West Virginia, Iowa and Georgia...