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South Asia works only as well as India and Pakistan permit it to. Last year, with a million troops mobilized along a volatile border and the prospect of a war going nuclear, the talk-heavy, accomplishment-light seven-nation South Asian Area Regional Conference (SAARC) was even less useful than ever. Last week, SAARC was hauled back from the morgue, when the seven countries signed a pact to make South Asia a free-trade zone by 2006. The reason for the success: India and Pakistan were on board. More proof of something big in the air came a day later...
...Supreme Judicial Court remind us that homosexuality does not deprive a person of fundamental rights. But Harvard under President Summers’ administration cooperates with those who discriminate against us. We ask him to reverse his decision and either join with other schools in challenging the Solomon Amendment or permit Harvard Law School...
...years later, musicians formed the Subway Arts Guild, which set in place provisions for performance. Musicians would receive a free permit every 90 days and would claim venues on a first-come-first-serve basis (excluding the Harvard Square station, for which they vied by coin toss), according to Ingram...
...system, which requires all permit applicants to submit a residential address, makes subway performance impossible for roaming or homeless performers. The program also carries no provisions for musicians visiting from other cities, Ingram says—many of whom bring vibrancy to Boston’s underground music scene...
What protects women now is the idea that all sexual activity must be by consent. Consent means consent while sober. It is permitted for a woman to seduce a man with feminine wiles, but it is not acceptable for a man to ply a woman with drink and then take stupor for consent. Almost anything goes so long as the woman consents. One exception to this is that faculty are not allowed to fool around with undergraduates. Other exceptions probably would be enforced if necessary; for example, one doubts that Harvard would permit an undergraduate prostitution ring even...