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This is traditionally called the polygamy challenge, but polygamy--one man marrying more than one woman--is the wrong way to pose the question. Polygamy, with its rank inequality and female subservience, is too easy a target. It invites exploitation of and degrading competition among wives, with often baleful social and familial consequences. (For those in doubt on this question, see Genesis: 26-35 on Joseph and his multimothered brothers...
Once again, the U.S. will pose the question, Why aren't American teams better at this distant cousin to basketball...
...what we have been doing here is to ask what Harvard, as an institution, means to those of us who will graduate today. The answer, of course, will depend upon the experiences of each student, yet it is enough to pose such a question to recognize the common experiences that we celebrate today...
...just because children's issues are so numerous and so fragmented, but because no one is certain what solutions, if any, will work. Even people committed to reducing teen pregnancy may disagree vehemently about the means to that end. Some feel that social trends like no-fault divorce pose the greatest threat to children...
...aspects of what we call reform not with a better future but with hardship," explains U.S. Deputy Secretary of State (and former TIME editor at large) Strobe Talbott, who oversees the Clinton Administration's Russia policy. "Crime and corruption are both broad based and deeply rooted," Talbott says. "They pose huge obstacles to Russia staying on a reformist course. [So] Russians tend to identify reform not only with hardship but with physical danger and gross inequity...