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...Increase Mather, Will’s indictment of Puritanism is hardly unique. In section and dining hall discussions, “Puritan” may be understood as shorthand for “obsolete, sexually repressed, joyless prude.” It is one of Harvard’s milder ironies that vilifying Puritans has become something of a pastime at the College that was once a cradle of the Puritan orthodoxy. In October, on this very page, for instance, Joe P. Flood quoted Ambrose Bierce’s Devil’s Dictionary definitions of Puritanism...
...years--gays, women, his mother--the blond rapper seemed to avoid insulting African Americans. Until, that is, hip-hop magazine The Source dug up some Eminem juvenilia: "Blacks and whites, they sometimes mix/but black girls only want your money 'cause they're dumb chicks" are some of the milder lyrics on the tape. Responding to charges of racism, Eminem issued a statement saying the song was recorded after he broke up with a black girlfriend and "made out of anger, stupidity and frustration when I was a teenager." Hey, man, some of us just kicked our lockers...
...period during which ECUSA would be expected to repent by retracting Robinson's episcopacy. American liberals insist that the primates have never produced that specific a demand. And since their meetings customarily end with a statement made by consensus, stubborn opposition by a handful of liberals could force a milder conclusion. Others have suggested an option more in keeping with the Anglican penchant for "muddling through." Last Friday Cape Town Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the most liberal of Africa's primates, proposed that a commission be set up to study how the church might learn to live with its disagreements...
Stephen H. Milder ’04, who is working for the campaign of city council candidate and rent control supporter Aimee Smith, said the issue of housing is one that should concern students, as well...
...Harvard and MIT are two of the reasons why people can’t afford to live here,” Milder said. “I think it’s important that students speak up to make sure the University takes some responsibility...