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That would not be the end of the world--Canada is a decent place--but the beginning of a new one for the U.S., a world far more complicated and fraught with division. History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with a linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it "racist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Plain English: Let's Make It Official | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

...Professor Richard Solomon, secured a grant that would allow him to complete his thesis despite the Corporation’s ruling. “For this decision, which left me unemployed three months before I could complete my Ph.D. thesis, Harvard was widely acclaimed as a bastion of academic freedom,” Kamin wrote.‘GRAVE MISCONDUCT’Meanwhile, Furry’s associate professorship was in jeopardy.In May 1953, the Corporation placed Furry on three-year probation for “grave misconduct.”“Dr. Furry’s teaching...

Author: By April H.N. Yee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After McCarthy Era, Harvard Shelves the Red Scare | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...Armstrong settled on physics at a young age, drawn to the exciting field that had recently developed radar and atomic science. At Harvard, he enjoyed his freedom to take courses in history and English, but the impression that science alone was making meaningful progress into the future confirmed his original intention to become a scientist...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientist Extends Arm In Many Areas | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...Though working in industry means giving up some freedom over what projects a scientist can choose to pursue, Armstrong points out that academic scientists are also seriously constrained by the realities of funding grants...

Author: By Virginia A. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Scientist Extends Arm In Many Areas | 6/3/2006 | See Source »

...Bush defended intimates such as Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, repeatedly emphasizing that they foster a sense of "security and freedom" lacking in his relationship with Gore. Overall, the transcript reveals 48 distinct uses by Bush of the word "freedom," including 19 instances alone when, apropos of nothing, he sang the complete lyrics to George Michael's six-and-a-half-minute pop anthem "Freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: "Hello, Mr. President. It's Al Gore Calling" | 6/2/2006 | See Source »

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