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...appeared to be “misleading” and included “stale recommendations.” Bilmes herself was slow to take offense, recognizing that the VA has lately been under pressure from several quarters, including Congress and various other veterans’ organizations. But no matter how the issue is approached, she says, there is no escaping the fallout that the VA’s current difficulties will spell for returning servicemen. “I think we have a problem with not meeting our obligations to veterans—a lot of unhappy veterans...
...populist rhetoric with sanctimonious shouts of “Let the people vote!” But this is anything but an issue that should be decided by popular opinion. As the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) rightly ruled in 2004, marriage is a civil right, not a matter of state policy. The proposed amendment is fundamentally an exercise in anti-gay prejudice, not popular empowerment, as its supporters constantly (and deceivingly) assert. To place the proposed constitutional ban of gay marriage on the ballot—essentially, to appeal basic civil rights to popular approval—would surely...
Well, that’s not true. But Harvard students are masters of obscurantism—insofar as we can bring “Basho” to Kansas, or “Dinosaurs” to Manhattan, or for that matter “Suleyman” to Montana...
...matter one Yale professor’s view of Harvard as a humorless place, people throughout academia are wondering whether Harvard is the next place for Richard...
...think that the significance of a female president at Harvard would largely be a matter of media coverage rather than major internal impacts,” says Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences Elena M. Kramer, a member of the 2005 Task Force on Women in Science and Engineering...