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Second, traditional media limits itself to the power of the pen. Whatever journalists believe, however ardently they believe it, they let other people start the initiatives. As counterintuitive as it appears, it’s this decision that gives their arguments merit??if you really know what’s best for other people, you should trust that your words alone will inspire them to act accordingly. New media sources facilitate agreement; they collect signatures, spam representatives, and organize rallies, sometimes before their audience knows that another side exists...
...nondiscrimination policy explains that it is committed to “equal opportunity for all persons on the basis of individual merit?? without regard to characteristics such as race or sexual orientation. While HLS invokes this policy in its arguments for banning the military from campus for its (wrongful, I would say) discrimination against gays, it apparently does not see any problem hosting the many law firms that specify that they are recruiting minority first-year students only—strongly inferring that non-minority first-years should wait until next year to have a shot...
Many, if not most, well-meaning people in modern societies see education as the rightful engine for social progress. Underlying this belief is the modern conviction that merit??rather than characteristics such as birth, tradition, race, gender, class, religion, age, and sexual orientation—should determine advancement up the social “ladder” or hierarchy. Accordingly, the answer to inequality to which many schools, including Harvard, offer or aspire is need-blind admissions: If you are academically good enough, you will get in regardless of your financial status...
...either. But marketing femininity does not fly in politics. If women are really going to “break through the glass ceiling” (as we like to say) it will not be by playing the gender card. Women should be elected on their political merit??not their chromosomes. I have no doubt that our first female president will be elected in due time, and when she is, she will not have to rely on her sex as a justification for her candidacy...
...Docket Committee, which normally tends to minor administrative duties, found Berkowitz’s claim “clearly without merit??—closing off any further options for appeal...