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...Harvard get at the heart of one of the central tensions in the idea of the university. It is possible in one sense to think of universities as institutions whose function is essentially conservative: they exist in order to preserve and transmit traditional forms of knowledge, and so maintain profound ties to the past. But at the same time, the relative autonomy of universities has allowed them to function historically as sites of critique and iconoclasm. The strange thing about universities in this sense is that they are at once staunch defenders of tradition and hotbeds of radicalism...
...endorsement of a degree in queer studies (Editorial, “Recognize Queer Studies, Feb. 15) and in the same spirit wanted to suggest some further areas of study that should be granted degree-granting powers as they too constitute modes of intellectual inquiry that have profound and far-reaching influence on life and society...
...Bush signs campaign finance reform into law, it could have a profound effect on American politics. The bill would ban the national parties from collecting the unlimited and unregulated donations known as "soft money." In the 2000 election, Republicans and Democrats raked in about a half billion dollars in soft money. Under the new bill, big dollars will still talk in political campaigns. The measure raises the amount of "hard money" that can be given to specific candidates, even though it's subject to more regulation and individual limits. But choking off hundreds of millions of unregulated soft dollars that...
...being forced onto trucks by Pakistani members of al-Qaeda, so he gathered 10 men, ambushed the trucks and released the women. In Jalalabad too, a few local Taliban eventually stormed the camp and freed the women who remained there. These were the heroic exceptions. For others, apparently, the profound degradation of women seemed perfectly tolerable...
...sexuality constitute axes of political and social identity, but also modes of intellectual inquiry. These issues of sexuality have profound and far-reaching influences on life and society. Studying these influences and interactions is a broad and rich field of study that can reveal previously marginalized discourses, perspectives and theories...