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...been less than two months since President Obama was inaugurated, but the sheen of the new administration has already begun to fade. During the first week of his presidency, Obama gave a very pretty speech in which he “rejected as false the choice between safety and ideals?? and signed an executive order to close the controversial prison at the United States naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama’s first post on the White House website also claimed that his administration would be “the most open and transparent in history...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: Between Our Safety and Our Ideals | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...exigencies of business have no place in a university. Such practical considerations are necessary to sustain centers of higher education as precisely that: institutions of learning. In this way, donations from men like Harkness and Rockefeller are crucial. Rather, the problem lies in an irrational glorification of these ideals??naming opportunities or a demand for unreasonable results, for example—that imposes the values and accomplishments of the philanthropist upon the beneficiary...

Author: By Noah M. Silver | Title: A Modern Mr. Harkness | 3/3/2009 | See Source »

...said Booker, who has served as Newark’s mayor since 2006. Booker said that today’s youth should acknowledge the accomplishments of the great leaders he learned about in his childhood and work to move the country closer to the “perfect ideals?? it was founded upon. In contrast to Booker, Negretti took to the stage wearing a grin that remained on her face throughout her speech. She told the story of Maria Carrasco, a Lynn, Mass. school committee member who was inspired to enter public service after attending...

Author: By Lauren D. Kiel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Booker Receives HKS Award | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...course, to make us understand that this is “bad.” The way these allegations have been painted, it seems that Muslims are the plague of the modern era—the one enemy in a world of crumbling moral fabric and disintegrating Christian ideals??and that Americans might as well resurrect Saddam Hussein and place him in the White House if they are willing to elect a “Muslim” from Illinois with the middle name “Hussein...

Author: By Nadia O. Gaber | Title: Obamaphobia | 2/4/2007 | See Source »

...University in September and the only one to win a scholarship. This is the third year in a row that Harvard has had one Marshall Scholar. The scholarships, which are only open to U.S. citizens, were founded in 1953 in commemoration of the “humane ideals?? of the Marshall Plan. They are funded by the British government and cover university fees and living expenses for two years of study...

Author: By Madeline M.G. Haas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Senior Named Marshall Scholar | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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