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Finally, seniors received a letter and brochure last week concerning the Senior Gift from the program's two co-chairs; and if this year is like last year, we will soon receive a letter from Dean Knowles himself, explaining why we ought to give him an unrestricted gift. The idea of the Senior Gift is not objectionable; what I do object to, however, is the idea that we should give unrestricted gifts to a single-entity Harvard because, as the brochure notes, "unrestricted gifts give the deans the most flexibility, enabling them to direct resources to areas where the need...
...that without Republican votes, neither it nor the Voting Rights Act of 1965 would have become law. White's naked partisanship also ignores the 4 million Americans who have been given a fresh start, liberated from lives of dependency on welfare by Republican reforms in social programs. What ought to trouble us all is the increasingly divisive and shrill rhetoric of today's Democratic Party candidates. Last year in Missouri, they ran ads suggesting that G.O.P. victories would lead to church bombings and cross burnings; in Maryland, they grossly distorted the civil rights record of our candidate for Governor. Meanspirited...
...tribute to Harvard's ability that it got this win in spite of itself. But for my stomach's sake, guys, please get the Red out and advance to the ECAC Semis like the cakewalk that these games ought...
...allow yourself to believe that your partner now ought to be your partner forever, you may find your inclination to stick things out miraculously intensifies...
Carnesale's handling of the Proposition 209 issue is instructive for us. When students at Harvard lobby for ethnic studies courses or cable TV and find their efforts stymied, they ought to remember that effective administrators must not simply cave in to what students believe to be in their interest, but instead are obliged to consider the most prudent path to the university's goals...