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...passion, they agreed. But when news of Dambrot’s usage got out, the college administration reproached and then fired him. Kennedy thinks that Dumbrot’s usage was ill-advised, but thinks his being fired was too harsh a sentence. Herein lies the contradiction. If racist intent was not apparent in Dambrot’s use, what else constituted its inappropriateness? Is ignorance or the simplification of the word’s far-reaching implications alone worthy of criticism? And if so, should all speakers, of all races, be aware of these implications before they...
...Intent plays an extreme and important role in the creation of art. Karen Finley, for example, enjoys parading her body and getting drunk and acting like a lunatic. Granted, she says she has her feminist reasons behind what she does—although her whole life stands as a hypocritical opposition to those beliefs—but she doesn’t develop what she believes in and wants to express and then finds the best medium to express that. Instead, she finds the medium she likes, and then does what she wants, and finally ascribes meaning...
Although a successful approach to grade inflation will certainly result in a reduction in the average student GPA, that reduction must not itself be the goal. Instead, Harvard should aim to reform its grading policies so that grades better serve their original intent; a shift in the overall grade distribution will come as a corollary of that process...
...gravest offense on the war crimes books but the hardest to prove. Prosecutors must show Milosevic knowingly intended to wipe out, in whole or in part, an ethnic or religious group - Bosnia's Croats and Muslims. "Unless you've got an accused saying, 'Yes, I had the intent, and I had the ability to do it,'" says deputy prosecutor Graham Blewitt, "you can only submit evidence that will enable the judges to infer that's what was in the accused's mind." Most of the charges fit under the less demanding "crimes against humanity" statutes. The maximum sentence...
...intent of this awkward relationship is to allow the University wiggle room between patriotism and diversity. It can claim to celebrate those among us who choose to serve their country, while it keeps the military’s homophobia far enough away physically and financially to prevent protest in the Yard and parsimony during donation season. And to those who might consider such distancing disrespectful to the students who express their patriotism through military service, the University can conveniently respond that cadets have the opportunity—indeed, the privilege—of holding their ROTC graduation right here...