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...internal disagreement with Charlesview residents. Harvard has offered to relocate the residents to two locations, but neither site has been fully embraced by Charlesview tenants. “Each day that passes further delays the creation of new homes for our residents,” Father Justinian Manning, the vice chairman of the Charlesview Board, said in a statement. “We are not ending our discussions with Harvard—we are just moving forward aggressively on a parallel track.” Nevertheless, an open meeting tonight in which residents and the Board planned to listen...
...addition, Douthat is unabashedly Eurocentric. It is a tragedy, he claims, that an undergraduate might leave Harvard’s walls “unable to distinguish Justinian the Great from Julian the Apostate.” Instead, they’re more likely to be familiar with propaganda in Nazi Germany, the role of the samurai in Japanese culture, or the Castro regime in Cuba. Of all the things to criticize, why complain that Harvard is too successful in attempting to expand the cultural and intellectual horizons of its students...
...Suleimaniye Mosque, Istanbul (174 ft.). Suleiman the Magnificent's reply to Justinian's Hagia Sophia...
...keep one step ahead of the students and teach myself about African empires and the Justinian Code, I think back to all the failed Faculty debates on including History 10a and 10b in the Core, all the swirling chatter about "methods and approaches to knowledge," and I wonder: To what end the self-righteous administrators' smugness at keeping the Core untainted by survey courses, if I hold a degree from Harvard and cannot call myself liberally educated...
THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had both divorce for cause and no-fault divorce. Justinian, as a good Christian, felt that it was his duty to curtail the loose practice of divorce and thereby bring law into closer conformity with the Gospels. The Romans, many of whom at that time were not Christians, were so incensed...