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...individuals in today’s integrated world faces a dilemma: how to balance their own economic interests with the well being of others around the globe whom their actions effect. Because potential injustices can be linked to almost any purchase, “ethical consumerism” has been brought to the forefront of society as an ideal. Broadly defined, the desire to be an ethical consumer—be it as a stockholder, business partner, or traditional consumer—is at the heart of the divestment debate. This issue raises two questions: first, whether we have...
...himself a bastion of enlightened thinking, but his banal analysis strays far from Voltaire and merely highlights his inherent racism. Tolerance is obviously absent in Kavulla’s vision of world affairs which is why he fails to understand the severity of these images for Muslims across the globe. As he correctly states, the offensive images did not warrant firebombing and violent protest, but neither has their publication encouraged intelligent debate, perhaps the only worthy justification for such an intentional act of offense. BEN A. MORETON Cambridge, Mass. February...
...truthful” caused Ellison to leave his post at the end of last spring semester.Ellison said he believes a similar pattern of behavior led to Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby’s Jan. 27 resignation.Ellison’s remarks, first reported in The Boston Globe yesterday, came seven months and one day after Harper, a member of the University’s highest governing board, told Summers in a “Dear Larry” letter that “Harvard’s best interests require your resignation.”The president?...
...contentious cartoons were first printed in a Danish newspaper, Jyllands-Posten, last September, and they have since been republished across the globe. The Salient—which uses The Crimson’s printing presses—republished the cartoons last week. A local homeless-run publication, Spare Change News, reprinted the cartoons this week...
Islamic law forbids illustrations of Muhammad, and the nature of the images—one of them depicting Muhammad as a terrorist with a bomb in his turban—has raised ire across the globe...