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...Scientists Award, bestowed by the New York Academy of Sciences. First jailed in 1997 for co-authoring a paper critical of the Communist system, she was released in May 2000—only to be incarcerated again this past March for meeting with U.S. diplomats and publicly demanding freedom for Cuban political prisoners. This time, she was given a 20-year sentence. I spoke to Martha Roque’s sister, Isabel Roque of Miami, last Friday. Fighting back tears, Isabel says that isolation, inept medical procedures and torture have ravaged her sister’s health. She has lost...
...members of the Harvard community and deep believers in the rights of all Americans, we were enraged by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) College Freedom Tour last Monday night (News, “Flynt Bashes Feminists, Lauds ACLU in Speech,” Sept. 30). Instead of promoting the importance of civil liberties, the event became a race rally, aimed at “people of color,” in the words of the ACLU panelists, and not at Americans as a united people. The flaws of the evening were exemplified by the premature removal of civil liberties...
Progressive taxation is the lynchpin of social progress because it funds these social programs and helps to redistribute wealth and income to those who need it most. Some conservatives argue that asking the ultra-rich to pay a higher percentage of their assets in taxes impedes their freedom and makes them less rich and thus less happy. But a growing body of research, including a study led by Harvard Professor of Psychology Daniel Gilbert, confirms what our elders always told us: that money cannot buy happiness...
...demanded by “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,” and we are each free to follow our individual beliefs to any extent that we want to, provided that we do not actively harm anyone else. Anything else would be a denial of American freedom...
...think Rush was unfairly forced out. ESPN hired him to be Rush, and guess what? They got him. Rush also has a right to freedom of speech. If the people didn't like what they heard, the ratings would have dropped. Should have left it to that. Guy Shewmaker Leander, Texas...