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...words of Theodore Roosevelt, issued in the midst of a world war, may still be apt in our present troubles. "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public." Roosevelt said this, of course, when he was no longer President...
...allow consumers to find free MP3s of just about anything they could want. Why, then, do they keep buying music?Part of me says that it is guilt, paranoia, or morality while the rest of me sees it as simple stupidity. Consider for a moment music’s present and historic availability. Download as much as you want, go to concerts, and let it be up to the music industry to adapt to this hearkening back to a time before the music’s physical footprint prevailed in our lives. Music has been set free...
...fast forward about two years to the present day. Harvard is set to kick off another season, Perlman is indeed at the top of the rotation, and the Crimson couldn’t be happier...
...very unfortunate” that the photograph had overshadowed the importance of collaboration between leading companies such as Pfizer and leading academic medical institutions. David J. Cameron, the Harvard Medical School spokesperson, said that he could not comment on Grassley’s request. Cameron said that he was present at the student protest last fall but did not know anything about the presence of a Pfizer representative at the time. “It was a public event, and people outside HMS were invited in,” he said, adding that “a lot of people...
...what about violence, past and present, in other religions? Samir distinguishes Islam-inspired violence from the Crusades, for example, which he says were carried out in the name of Christianity (or for interests of a Christian-led nation) but not driven by any interpretation of the Gospel...