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Harvard is also unique because Harvard first-years can choose their roommates and blockmates from the entire class. In spite of the pain and stress the blocking system can cause, it still gives Harvard first-years the freedom of association that is denied to their Yale peers. Not everyone blocks with the people in their freshman dorms. The importance of the right to choose one’s own roommate cannot be underestimated...
...March 3, have prompted some—including The Crimson—to ask whether the process by which questions are asked should be adjusted so as to give some members of our community a reserved right to ask their question. This criticism contends that sometimes the freedom to ask any question results in questions that do not adequately challenge the speaker, inviting outbursts from disrespectful members of the audience. While no one is ever barred from asking a question, the IOP remains committed to making the Forum a venue in which the only barrier between an audience member...
...Will there be a backlash against the new intrusiveness? Gupta argues that the public has supported a free press because journalists never abused that freedom. Now, he says, "I'm really worried one of my reporters is going to get thrashed." Bollywood producer Pritish Nandy fears conservative critics will use the scandal to attack both journalism and entertainment. "Did you know Lady Chatterley's Lover is still banned in India? This only gives a leg up to the crazy prudes who think that's a good idea." Tehelka boss Tarun Tejpal knows how aggressive journalism can boomerang. After publishing...
...That was not, of course, Rice's only message. Wherever she went, she reiterated the Bush Administration's view that freedom and democracy are the essential underpinnings to sustained peace and prosperity. No question where that shaft was aimed. "We believe," she said, "that when China's leaders confront the need to align their political institutions with their increased economic openness, they will look around them in Asia and they will see that freedom works." Perhaps predictably, Xinhua, China's state-owned news agency, mentioned only Rice's complimentary remarks on China and did not refer to her comments...
...McCarthy era. It was a chilling period, as right-wing anti-intellectuals attacked almost daily many of the country’s greatest artists, writers, actors, professors, scientists, and universities. Even great institutions such as MIT bent to the attacks by suspending professors and thus curtailing academic freedom for intellectuals anywhere...