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...religion, no matter how silly I felt holding two tin cans in my hands. Scientology offers its parishioners a confidant or mentor—a means of free and clear communication. A fringe benefit of total memory recall, I thought, might be the ability, or backbone, or freedom, to say what I wanted to say. Further, I thought that Scientology offers its adherents the inverse of the education I’m getting at Harvard. Scientologists discover the world by examining themselves. I try to learn about myself by examining the world...
...young lawyer, she also represented Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visiting the civil rights leader in jail and arguing for his freedom to protest...
...resentment." He does not say that Dink is being prosecuted by a Turkish court for writing that Turkey should discuss the Armenian genocide. Dink may be sentenced to up to three years in prison for talking about the Armenian genocide. What is your view, as a journalist, about freedom of the press in Turkey as it relates to the Armenian genocide? Justin McCarthy, professor of history at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, says that he thinks that the events were not genocide because some Armenians survived. Can you imagine the same words being said about the Jewish Holocaust? Would...
Tacitly, every member of the military is tagged as a bigot who does not accept Harvards principled stand, whether or not they actually oppose homosexuals serving openly. Potential recruits are forced to choose whether national defense or the freedom for gays to tell their squad mates about their sexual inclinations is more important. The University clearly supports the latter notion...
...helps keep out the gays: By taking such a strident stand against the military, the University is certain to alienate many Americans who have sympathy for gay rights but abhorrence for those who take a throw the baby out with the bath water approach to the defenders of our freedom. Coupled with Harvards desire to keep its relatively liberal student body from considering joining the military and changing its culture, the only result can be that open-serving for homosexuals is pushed further and further into the unforeseeable future...