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...They might not think it is such a big deal being gay. But gay people do have problems," Skjaervo said. "I do think personally that Harvard does have a more important function in the society," a responsibility to set moral precedents...
...another student is quoted as saying "I don't see it affecting my life much at all." The second guy quoted also allegedly said. "The curriculum we take is being decided by the faculty, so it's not a big issue if he can't function as he has been." Ye Gods...
...abroad may delay the Pentagon's and its client industry's shrinkage, it perpetuates an addiction for military perquisites. As Randall Forsberg, director of the Institute for Defense and Disarmament Studies in Cambridge, Massachusetts, puts it, "The forces and defense industries needed by the industrial countries are largely a function of regional arms buildups created by their own arms exports...
...Illinois Governor Jim Edgar, a Republican, are on board. But perhaps most vociferous on the subject has been Cook County public guardian Patrick Murphy, whose father spent three years in an orphanage. "Foster care cannot handle adolescent kids," maintains Murphy. "What residential care provides is consistency." Consistency is a function of duration-of-stay, however, and proponents await a commission report due out at the end of this month to suggest whether Illinois may actually defy the family-first paradigm and invest more in institutions that do what orphanages once did: hold on to children for five, 10, even...
...acting president of Howard University, and from such conservative social theorists as Charles Murray and James Q. Wilson. "Not all families are worth preserving," Wilson wrote. "And . . . foster care has its own problems. We don't know as much as we should about how well institutional care might function under contemporary conditions." (To which Murray added, "Think of it as 24-hour day care...