Word: objectionable
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This reasoning is truly practical, but it ignores all competing claims to the legitimacy of menorah lighting other than that of fire prevention. The foremost objection to the ban is that it limits religious freedom. Candle lighting is essential to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah because it reminds Jewish people...
Although yesterday's demonstration was fairly low-key (please see story, page 1), the annual Junior Parents Weekend protest has previously been a forum for vigorous--and sometimes vitriolic--objection to Harvard's resistance to increased ethnic studies offerings.
The objection, lodged as a written complaint with President Neil L. Rudenstine, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles and Phillip J. Parsons, director of planning in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), and was drafted during a department meeting Wednesday.
WASHINGTON, D.C. President Clinton vetoed a Republican-sponsored welfare reform bill Tuesday evening, calling the plan "burdened with deep budget cuts and structural changes that fall short of real reform." But he quickly reiterated his longstanding commitment to welfare reform, pledging to work with congressional Republicans "to enact real, bipartisan...
But amendment supporters are not without a response to this criticism. Most of those who understand this objection maintain that the flag is so crucially special, so venerable, that it needs to be consecrated just the same.