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...debate, rather than through extremist and attention-grabbing tactics that sensationalize and distort the issue. With the strike thankfully over, Harvard must now live up to its commitments; we hope that it will not try to take advantage of the summer break, with students away and attention diverted, to neglect its responsibilities to its workers...
...despite the fact that premarital cohabitation is rare in Japan. But while abortion is common, adoption in Japan is virtually unheard of, although there are many couples eager to take in children. But the law is stacked in favor of birth parents' rights, even in cases of abuse, neglect or outright abandonment...
...erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences William C. Kirby reminded freshmen in 2002, “You are here to work, and your business here is to learn.” Harvard students who, by participating in such political fiascoes, neglect their academic responsibilities—which surely entails proper nutrition—do not act selflessly; they act stupidly. All charity begins at home: You cannot solve the world’s problems if you cannot even attend to your own obligations...
...this fits a pattern of willful neglect, says Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. "Congress has set up an enforcement mechanism," he says, "kept it under-funded, understaffed and restricted in what it can do with the laws and procedures it is supposed to enforce." Giving ATF the resources it needs to enforce existing laws, says Helmke, should be something politicians on both sides of the aisle in Congress can agree on. "We're hopeful," says Helmke, "that post-Virginia Tech this might be an area the elected officials can focus...
...nature placed him at odds with the younger and more pragmatic generation of Hizballah officials who gained prominence at the end of the Lebanese civil war in 1990. And he crossed swords with the Lebanese government in 1997 when he launched a campaign of civil disobedience to protest official neglect of the impoverished Bekaa. Toufeili insists he does not dwell on the past, and spends most of his time studying weighty tracts on Islamic jurisprudence. Yet one cannot help wondering what dark secrets swirl in his memory when he gazes out of his window at the imposing walls...