Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Selecting Sanders and the Science Center as venues is definitely one of the right decisions we made," Kung said. "You can't buy Sanders and no hotel even comes close," he added, emphasizing that the idea of holding the conference on campus appealed to many alumni...
Leary "managed to sell a lot of students on the idea that you can get wisdom and insight from a pill, that drugs were a short cut," said Henderson Professor of Psychology Brendan A. Maher, who was then acting as the co-chair of the Department of Personality...
...certainly not afraid to say if he thinks something is a bad idea," says Dunster resident Marco B. Simons '97, the chair of the Undergraduate Council's Student Affairs Committee, who has worked with Epps...
...funny thing is, on the issue of same-sex marriage, both sides agree with Paul. In fact, advocates of same-sex marriage and their opponents concur that it is better to marry than almost anything else. They both embrace the idea that marriage is the bedrock of a stable society, and that it is the ideal method of civilizing wayward and wanton males, something every society must do. In short, hooray for till-death-us-do-part. The only problem is that both sides disagree vehemently on who should be allowed to take that...
Cicero's statement reflects what is known as the natural-law argument against same-sex unions. This is the idea that marriage evolved in society over thousands of years as a childbearing union between a man and a woman, and that there is a profound wisdom in the tradition that should not be lightly discarded. Virtuecrat William J. Bennett contends that same-sex marriages "would do significant long-term social damage" to "society's most important institution." And that stretching the definition of marriage would jeopardize an already shaky institution...