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Like many close friends, Peter A. Meyerdirk '00 and Kellon Daytes play football and go to movies together. But Meyerdirk and Daytes, a mentally retarded student at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, owe their unlikely friendship to an international program called Best Buddies...
...Reuther embraced politics, Hoffa simply bought influence, paying off policemen, prosecutors and anyone else who stood in the way. His image was cemented forever in 1975 when Hoffa went to a Detroit restaurant to meet several Mafiosi and never returned. He is still revered by members who say they owe their place in the middle class to him, and his legacy lives on. The results of the election campaign his son James P. has waged for his father's old job are expected this month...
...what does America owe its prosperity? Why are so many more Angolan girls malnourished and so many more Bolivians homeless than are Americans? Precisely because the capitalist business system in America is well-designed and works efficiently. Joe goes to a supermarket in America, for a relatively low price buys vegetables in a tamperproof package with nutrition labels, comes home and pops it in his microwave and enjoys a healthy meal...
...course, Harvard is not directly constrained by the Constitution. But Harvard students and faculty owe a special, zealous allegiance to the First Amendment, which epitomizes the liberal values that Harvard aspires to preserve above all others. So it is shocking when Harvard students say that the free exercise of religion and the freedom of speech must take back seats to other values of dubious significance, such as "a sense of community" or an extremely broad notion of a woman's right to a legal abortion...
...Jeffrey Archer's Viewpoint on the reform of Britain's 700-year-old House of Lords [Oct 26], it sounded really nice when he noted that "the hereditary peers owe their position to no living person. They are therefore free to think and act as they choose." Indeed, they have done nothing other than be born into the "right" families to gain their seats. According to Archer, the fact that the hereditary Lords are finally voting to give up their privileges is a proof of their wisdom. If it is, I only wish the Lords had been slightly more clever...