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...These funds currently support medical and scientific research critical to millions of people, and to our common national interests. Though the outcome of the court’s decision is regrettable, Harvard has made the correct decision by agreeing to aid military recruiters on campus. HLS Dean Elena Kagan ought to be commended, moreover, for urging all members of the Harvard community to robustly oppose the military’s discriminatory employment policies. Her suggestion that students register their disapproval of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by demonstrating against...
...department, there is not enough support or interest among faculty members to push for saving the course. In its place, the department aims to mandate “long ago” and “far away” courses. There is evidently nothing foundational a history concentrator ought to know—or at least, that’s the message the department would be sending by killing History 10a. A lack of desire among professors to teach History 10a is an inappropriate reason to eliminate the course, if not a slightly alarming one. To operate under such...
...most familiar faces of American news. One audience member asked Rather about the media’s ability to balance national security interests with the public’s right to know. Rather said he thought sensitive information should be printed and that the burden ought to be placed on the government to prove why information should not be printed. Of the recent controversial Danish cartoons, Rather said that while he thinks the Danish newspaper was right to publish them, “it might not have been the right thing for everybody, everywhere...
...from an “is,” nor is it advisable to try to derive such a relation. Yet, when Mansfield defines “confidence in the face of risk” in male terms, he also implies a normative judgment about how men and women ought to act: women are told that it is unnatural or improper to harness a supposedly quintessential male characteristic...
...mini energy markets," European Commission President José Manuel Barroso said last week. "Even the largest member states are too small when we talk about globalization and energy." For the Commissioners, capital cities and consumers helping to map the route toward a more open market, that perspective ought to keep minds occupied for some time to come...