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...editorial "In Defense of Liberal Education," (Sep. 16) Daniel Choi '94 declares that the goal of a "liberal education" ought to be a healthy vision of "truth and goodness." He suggests that we can achieve such vision by limiting our studies to classical and time-tested philosophy, literature, art and music. To give Choi credit, there may indeed be great value to intense study of Greek philosophers. But this is certainly not "the only true road to wisdom," as he claims. Intense study of any number of religious texts may also be formative of healthy character; and perhaps the truest...
...Tokef," that Rosh HaShanah begins a period of divine judgment in which each man, woman and child passes in spirit before the heavenly throne to receive his or her fate. Rosh HaShanah is, then, an awesome moment of the year in the truest sense of the term--one that ought to summon feelings of humility before one's maker...
Mansbridge said her seminar, "Representing Gender, Race and Class" will consider "Why we think, as we sometimes do, that women ought to represent women and men should represent men and a member of the middle class should represent the middle class...
Mansbridge said her seminar, "Representing Gender, Race and Class" will consider "Why we think, as we sometimes do, that women ought to represent women and men should represent men and a member of the middle class should represent the middle class...
...reform it all at once, you're vulnerable to charges that aren't true but are powerful, like I was trying to have the government take it over. With Kennedy-Kassebaum, we did a big portion of what we needed to do. Now I think we ought to take the next step, which is to provide coverage for families who are working but unemployed for an extended period of time. Then we'll take another step. We're in an era when people don't want promises to be high-flown and unrealistic...