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...civil rights in the 20th century. Those individuals who disagree with the "core values" of a society are in fact those most in need of the protections of the First Amendment. If the protections of free speech only apply to non-controversial points of view, free speech is utterly meaningless...
Harvard didn't give up on Saturday and it shouldn't give up now. The offense still ground it out in the second half. The defense still hit hard on every play. Vin Ferrara tried to stop a meaningless touchdown late in the game and the Crimson punt-return team even got their hands on a punt. Harvard also stopped a point-after attempt...
...What they had before the Core, which were essentially distributional requirements, got totally abused and rendered meaningless," he said...
...loss to Brown knocked the Crimson out of the hunt for a tournament berth. However, the team still had to play in one last game under tough circumstances. The meaningless consolation game is always difficult for a team that had hopes of moving on. The Crimson recovered, however, to play tough in the fifth-place match and defeated Boston College by a score...
...offers us its first and fundamental key and confirms that there are indeed universal human rights, rooted in the nature of the person, rights which reflect the objective and inviolable demands of a universal moral law. They also remind us that we do not live in an irrational and meaningless world. On the contrary, there is a moral logic which is built into human life and which makes possible dialogue between individuals and peoples. If we want a century of violent coercion to be succeeded by a century of persuasion, we must find a way to discuss the human future...