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...Tell (DADT) policy. Concern for the rights of gay students is only the latest incarnation of a deep seated antipathy towards the military, dating from the Vietnam War period. To many at Harvard, the presence of the military on campus under any circumstances is objectionable, regardless of the Pentagon??s policy towards gays...
...American initiatives aimed at fostering professional and respected media in the Arab world. Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) argued that the program was only the latest of the Bush administration’s attempts to “buy the news,” and Senate Democrats linked the Pentagon??s efforts to a Government Accountability Office investigation which had faulted the Bush administration for preparing news summaries that were published without attribution to the government. In an age of global media, there were also worries that “news” placed abroad might make...
...news that Iraqi journalists who speak optimistically about the American occupation are on the Pentagon??s payroll will certainly reinforce these types of suspicions. In an environment in which democracy and America are too often equated with suffering and aggression, Arab democrats already have an extremely difficult time convincing their fellow citizens that their ideas are formed from an honest and heartfelt conviction that democracy is the best path towards the future. Because of this Pentagon program, their fellow citizens now have an additional reason to believe that moderate and democratic ideas are foreign-funded rather than organically...
...acceptance of homosexuals in the armed services. Both of these discussions should occur with mutual respect (and perhaps Congress-writing campaigns). In return, the military should make it a high priority to listen to and take students from Harvard, particularly those with views on homosexuality different from the Pentagon??s own. Social change happens slowly, but the brass should brace itself for, and be open to, an end to all discrimination in the armed services...
...Point, my granddad was in the Navy, and my other granddad went to a military academy. But I don’t have the opportunities that they were able to have,” he said. Leatherman said the fact that Rumsfeld v. FAIR does not directly address the Pentagon??s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, which forbids open homosexuals from serving in the military, makes the case insignificant to the larger goals of the gay rights movement. “If we lose today, it?...