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...economic and personal ties to slavery at Harvard. Moreover, it is to the credit of professors and their students that historical surveys of this kind do not have to be institutionally instigated. A top-down approach to such reviews of Harvard’s dusty history is not the ideal way to conduct inquiry into the University’s past. The mandate for such forms of research and study should not derive from higher powers, such as the President’s office. Although President Drew G. Faust is surely an educated voice on the subject of slavery entrenched...
...Movement of the 1960s was breaking the final barrier in opening voting booths to all Americans. But as the country has witnessed in horror in 2000 in Florida and with much less concern in Ohio in 2000 and 2004, the voting systems that we currently use are nowhere near ideal. In the history of America, states have failed to protect voters’ right or ability to vote, whether out of racism or apathy, and it is horrible that state-sanctioned impediments such as this one still exist. For Justice John Paul Stevens, who wrote the majority opinion...
...glaring problems. This decision does not encourage student freedom, but rather general ambiguity and confusion. Moreover, it will likely condemn one group or the other to a few semesters’ worth of inhospitable course choices from scant options and even worse advising—not the ideal way to kick off a new epoch of learning in Cambridge...
...Ideal Date: Early bird special. Any place, any time. As long as it’s early...
...such, the election seems to present an ideal opportunity to start from scratch, beginning at the most mundane level. It begins with a recognition of the hidden minimalist beauty of straightforward IRS paperwork. One could argue about the “optimal” level and structure of taxation, but the general direction of our tax legislation must be the one toward less complexity. Fred Thompson’s proposal may need to be fine-tuned, but it would be a crushing disappointment if the country missed an opportunity to reform a clumsy tax system that only hinders competition with...