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...economist in the early 1990s. The selection has created little stir among the liberal groups that had expressed strong opposition to Summers’ possible appointment as Treasury secretary. The National Organization for Women and other women’s groups, for example, had issued sharply-worded statements of protest earlier this month, harking back to Summers’ turbulent tenure as Harvard’s president. “I’ve heard nothing negative—that doesn’t mean that people haven’t said negative things,” Zeckhauser said...
Chanting “Gay, straight, black, white, marriage is a civil right,” around 100 protesters marched to Harvard Square after gathering outside of Cambridge City Hall yesterday afternoon in protest to Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage approved by California voters passed earlier this month. The rally in Central Square, which featured speakers including state representatives and past and present mayors of Cambridge, emphasized the city’s example in legalizing gay marriage and advocated spreading the “sweet wine of freedom” across the country. Cambridge was the first...
...Mercer based in Minneapolis, Minn. Instead, government agencies have to battle bit by bit for benefit trims that employees can collectively counter by marshaling great passion. In 2005 when California's Governor Schwarzenegger tried to radically reform the state's expensive pension plan, he met a firestorm of protest from unions, and ultimately backed down...
...will be, a lot more to Harvard-Yale than the now-missing last few hours of the tailgate, hysteria seems to be the order of the day. Anyone who claims that the new rules stand to ruin Harvard-Yale, or who refuses to show up at the tailgate in protest, is being epically silly. After all, it could be a whole lot worse...
...Partly conservative skepticism towards animal rights is reflexive. When PETA staged a 2004 “love in, fur out” protest in Harvard Square—six near naked protesters on a giant mattress, protesting fur—the Harvard Salient expressed predictable outrage. And when secular philosophers cite Darwin’s findings on human-animal similarities as a basis for more equal rights between species, pious conservatives cringe...