Word: morale
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Yeah, of course—oh wait, not sure, I’m committed to a pre-Krokodiloes engagement.” Roommates are the darndest thing. And almost universally, at Harvard at least, they become families. I’m not sure there’s a moral to this endpaper; it’s meant simply to illustrate the clashing of two distinct kinds of Harvard families—and I couldn’t be more honored to facilitate such an unlikely introduction.— Jake C. Levine is a super-senior in Leverett House...
...category brings together an uneasy combination of goals that don’t fit together very well,” said Thomas M. Scanlon, Jr., the Alford professor of natural religion, moral philosophy, and civil polity. He recommended dropping the requirement altogether...
...give them the freedom to do so,” he said. Professor of German Peter J. Burgard said he found the “Reason and Faith” requirement “less appropriate for a general education curricular” than the current “Moral Reasoning” requirement. “My general impression of the proposal,” Burgard concluded in an e-mail statement, “is that—not in all the general education courses it would include and encourage, but in its principles and rationale?...
...other organizations that wittingly or unwittingly aid extremist groups in Palestinian society are performing a grave disservice to the region as a whole. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict can only be solved diplomatically; there are simply too many moral, political, and historical factors at play. ISM activists, like Rachel Corrie, idealistically believe they are helping the Palestinians, but in reality only add fuel to the fire, deepening the animosity on both sides...
Eschewing the moral self-righteousness of current Mass. Governor W. Mitt Romney, Patrick has assumed bold and principled positions. This is evident not only in economic matters, noting his support of lucrative and potentially life-saving stem cell research—which Romney refused to use public money to fund—but also in his approach to gay marriage and abortion rights. Proudly pro-choice, Patrick is also a staunch supporter of equal marriage rights, including the right of out-of-state couples to marry in Massachusetts, even if their marriages will not be legitimized in their home states...