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...university had declared October as a month to celebrate Hispanic culture and heritage—a decision both Alonzo and Texas A&M Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President for Communications Stephen Moore cited as an additional motivation for the protests. Moore presented the issue as one of academic freedom and claimed that both the lecture and the protest were proof of the university’s respect for it. “Academic freedoms and rights of freedom of speech are paramount,” Moore said in reference to Monday’s events. “This...
...rising sun, and the motto “Sub Libertate Florent.” Established during the Revolutionary War, the Academy was founded to represent some of the brightest minds and hopes of a new country, as well as the belief that the arts and sciences flourish under freedom. Other 2005 fellows from Harvard are David E. Bloom, Gamble professor of economics and demography; John H. Coatsworth, director of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies; James Engell, Gurney professor of English literature; Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School; Duncan M. Kennedy, Carter professor of general jurisprudence...
...long time, he says, pointing to the country's 25,000 centenarians. What they need to learn is how to stay productive and engaged after they've moved into the third phase of life. "After 75, you can still have potential," he says. "You need to have the freedom to explore that. You need to start something new, something you've never tried before...
...year-old Minoru Saito recently became the oldest person to sail solo around the world without stopping. "I thought my life after 70 was finished," says Saito, as weathered as a tugboat and as trim as a battleship. "But I could still keep doing things my way, with complete freedom." During his 244-day voyage, the modern-day Ulysses scared off a pirate with a flare gun and subsisted on rations, the occasional flying fish, blood-pressure tablets and rainwater. "It was no problem," he says. "Better than Tokyo city water...
...toll for the U.S. military nearing 2,000, the White House has been struggling to frame the war in a way that will evince patience. At summer's end, President Bush gave a trio of speeches equating the war on terrorism to World War II--given that both pitted freedom against "a murderous ideology." He compared Iraq last week to yet another conflict that enjoyed bipartisan support. "Islamic radicalism, like the ideology of communism, contains inherent contradictions that doom it to failure," he declared. A White House official involved in preparing the 40-min. speech said it was designed...