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...torture, including waterboarding—to be extremely disappointing. Last month, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs announced that the Obama administration planned to release the photographs, citing a Freedom of Information Act request filed by the American Civil Liberties Union. But, on May 13, the administration changed its mind. The White House’s sudden reversal is not only unfortunate but also makes it complicit in what is effectively one of the greatest governmental cover-ups in contemporary history...
...reshaping of some of our academic programs. Change is difficult, even when the goal is clear, and to successfully overcome the challenge before us, our entire community—the faculty, staff, and students—will need to work together and trust that each has the best in mind for our community...
...urban liberal like me, the word “value” can have some suspicious connotations. It brings to mind the “values voters” of the last two or three presidential elections, in which “values” seemed a stand-in for an unexamined and potentially bigoted moral rubric—an ethical compass calibrated not by reason or argument but by a seat-of-the-pants, bottom-of-the-gut, irrational “feeling” about what is right. Or, in the completely opposite direction, the word...
...event started coming together. And it came off so beautifully. I think it was ... it's one of those events that stand out in my mind as, This is why I'm here - to help make this possible and to see the faces on those girls as they entered the East Room in all its glory and to be sitting around these tables with women they saw on TV or saw on the news, and to have them having real conversations. Alicia Keyes, who's the idol of every single girl under 30 probably - when she came in, she literally...
...those events," she says looking back, "that stand out in my mind as, This is why I'm here...