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...spent five high holiday seasons here at Harvard, I was dumbfounded to read the remarkably closed-minded opinion piece “The Eleventh Plague” (Opinion, Oct. 1). During the holidays, Harvard Hillel sponsored the religious services of four separate prayer communities—each with its own unique character—and the Chabad House at Harvard held its own set of traditional and yet highly participatory services. Both Hillel and the Chabad House also served family-style meals and break-fasts which were free to all undergraduates. If the authors felt alienated by the Reform services...
...response to “When Speaking Out is Not Enough” (Opinion, Oct. 8), the Crimson Staff hits the nail on the head when they write, “Standing up to the discriminatory ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ policy requires more than an empty public relations statement. It requires action.” However, banning military recruiters from campus is action which will have little consequence on the policy. After being in the Navy for over two years, I’ve learned that political rallies...
Sichel’s column, “The Joys of Sex” (Opinion, Oct. 8) relies on a faulty premise, and thus, her conclusions against the conservative preservation of marriage are faulty too. Her idea that fulfillment of sexual desire is an incentive for marriage just doesn’t hold water. I don’t know of and can’t imagine anybody who wants to get married to sanctify his or her sexuality. If such people do exist, they are rare and are not representitive of the American public at large, and so such...
Nura Hossainzadeh’s praising of Ayatollah Khomeini (Opinion, “Individualism in Iran,” Oct. 8), if anything, serves to demonstrate the strength of intellectual diversity at Harvard. Indeed, where else would I be able to find a classmate so in awe of a man who, upon coming to power, held 53 American Embassy workers hostage for over a year, instituted laws decreeing death for homosexuality and stoning for adultery, and jumpstarted Iran’s program of funding terrorist organizations throughout the Middle East...
...MEDIA CANNOT BE PERMITTED TO manipulate the outcome of a national election. The Justice Department must investigate how CBS attempted to sway public opinion with phony documents from the Texas Air National Guard...