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...response to the publicity that issues surrounding homosexuality have been getting in the days since Queer Month began. If Queer Month is to serve the role of educating the Harvard student body about homosexuality, then its organizers should take this upsetting event as an impetus to bring the homophobia latent on this campus to the fore and to find constructive ways of dealing with it. At the same time, the administration should follow the Kennedy School's example in responding to the homophobia speech by sponsoring more programs to educate all students...
...feel, as the staff apparently does, however, that these incidents represent a "latent" or "deepseated" homophobic sentiment on campus. Any candid person will admit that, of all their problems, a lack of tolerance is not high on the list for Harvard students...
Reinventing government was once a way to streamline costs, but now conservatives have used the push for sound finance to mask their ideology. Latent behind the rhetoric of efficiency and opportunity that makes up the case for privatization lies an ideology of rugged individualism that is encapsulated by the free market. Social Security is a highly redistributive program that, in old age, seeks to ensure a minimum level of subsistence for all Americans. Privatization may be the solution for garbage collection and management of the Congressional beauty parlor, but it will ruin Social Security precisely because social security...
...often, incidents surrounded by a mysterious cloud of latent anti-Semitic prevent the accuser from filing formal charges. In this case, while many facts may forever remain unclear, the motive behind Rosenbaum's murder is not: he was killed first and foremost because he was Jewish. This is all the more startling given the crime was perpetrated in the last decade of 20th century America and not in turn-of-the-century Europe...
...adolescence, around the age of 18, the brain has declined in plasticity but increased in power. Talents and latent tendencies that have been nurtured are ready to blossom. The experiences that drive neural activity, says Yale's Rakic, are like a sculptor's chisel or a dressmaker's shears, conjuring up form from a lump of stone or a length of cloth. The presence of extra material expands the range of possibilities, but cutting away the extraneous is what makes art. "It is the overproduction of synaptic connections followed by their loss that leads to patterns in the brain," says...