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While they were not close in college, the pair—which Verba describes as a “knee-jerk liberal” and a “dyed-in-the-wool conservative”—now jokingly needle each other about their political differences...
...because they are products of their environment. They likely grew up in a culture where it was an accepted fact for homosexuals to be discriminated against. Perhaps they were told that the God they worship believed homosexuality was sinful. For these Americans, homophobia just became another habit, another knee-jerk reaction...
...Undergraduate Council needs to be given an opportunity to respond to what was clearly a knee-jerk decision. It previously presented the Commission with a convincing, well argued case to extend party hours. But the impending May 27 hearing that is planned for discussion of this policy change does not allow adequate time for the Council prepare a response—falling right after finals when many students will have already departed for the summer. The University should work with the city to move the hearing to the fall so that the Council can present a balanced case. The University...
Wechsler’s knee-jerk reaction was panic—he had lied about his past participation in “subversive organizations” when joining the army and was now threatened with a $10,000 fine and/or a five-year prison sentence...
...member of the administrative staff with professional and personal commitments outside of Harvard, I have mixed emotions to Judd B. Kessler’s recent column (“The 168-Hour Week,” April 8). My knee-jerk reaction to the statistic that students spend seven hours a day on academics is “so what?” One could argue it’s your job and as staff, we work seven hours a day (or more). Students at Harvard Extension School plus graduate students are juggling full-time jobs and family lives...