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...suppose that there's an opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone...
...door. Instead she went to live with relatives. Later, when she met him in the street, she simply smiled politely. As for Kabagare, he explained that the authorities had originally told him he could stay in the house, and that if they told him to leave, he would obey: "I will do what I am told...
...implying a factual omission.) I then asked her whether the Ad Board had the right to punish legal, non-academic behavior, she replied that it did. When I asked her to explain this prerogative, she said that because I was a member of the Harvard community I had to obey the rules of the Harvard community...
...When Obey was elected in 1969, he became the first Democrat to represent the Seventh District. He is now the ranking Democrat on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Still an outspoken liberal, he supported a single-payer healthcare system and is skeptical of balancing the budget on a fixed schedule. But if he wants to keep his seat, he'll have to beat Scott West, who gave Obey a scare...
West, an admissions counselor at the University of Wisconsin for the past 12 years, is running a rematch of his 1994 bid against incumbent David Obey. He's proposing vast government reforms, including audits of all government departments, limiting congressional perks and passing term limits. His opponent has been a political institution here since 1969, but West has found some chinks in his armor--he won 46% of the vote in 1994, the highest of any of Obey's challengers...