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...Conference Committee of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives. And not only is the House more loyal to the administration, but three of the nine senators who voted against the measure are on the Conference Committee. However, McCain’s absolute ban on torture ought to be adopted by the House and signed by the president if the Congress and administration are to maintain any semblance of an ethical position on this matter.According to the November 2005 New Yorker, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can be implicated in four deaths of detainees in United States?...
...altogether.Harvard is an institution that idolizes free speech, in a country that holds these values sacrosanct. It behooves us to cast a wide net in searching out violations of these principles. Our own firewall should perhaps offend our sensibilities as students, but the restricted intellectual freedom of Chinese citizens ought to offend our sensibilities as people, and we should actively seek to restore these rights to them.Matthew A. Gline ’06 is a physics concentrator in Quincy House. His column appears on alternate Tuesdays...
...impulses in humanity's behavioral portfolio, ambition--that need to grab an ever bigger piece of the resource pie before someone else gets it--ought to be one of the most democratically distributed. Nature is a zero-sum game, after all. Every buffalo you kill for your family is one less for somebody else's; every acre of land you occupy elbows out somebody else. Given that, the need to get ahead ought to be hard-wired into all of us equally...
...entrepreneur, the phlegmatic child who never really showed much go. But if it's genes that run the show, what accounts for the Shipps, who didn't bestir themselves until the cusp of adulthood? And what, more tellingly, explains identical twins--precise genetic templates of each other who ought to be temperamentally identical but often exhibit profound differences in the octane of their ambition...
...earth brand of revelry, but ice sculptures would be pretty cool.)It is unreasonable to expect equal development of House communities so long as there is such a great divergence in the extravagance of the events that each House is able to put on for its members. The College ought to take on the responsibility of ensuring that each HoCo is able to provide a menu of community events on par with each of its peers.But how can we hope to equalize the resources available to each HoCo? The answer, comrades, is simple: Communism of the Houses.Wherever possible, the College...