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To the editors: Your recent editorial (“Exempting the Church,” Mar. 14) made an excellent point: in the ongoing “clash of values” between Massachusetts and the Catholic Church over adoption by gays and lesbians: the interests of the State?...
The rights of fathers have always been the background noise of the abortion debate. Beginning with Planned Parenthood v. Danforth in 1976, then in Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992, state efforts to require that fathers be notified before women have abortions were struck down by the Supreme Court as...
In the so-called “War on Terror,” a few of our civil liberties just became permanent casualities. Last week, just days before the USA Patriot Act was set to expire, President Bush signed legislation that effectively makes the stipulations of the act permanent. Narrowly...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s power to demand patron borrowing information from libraries, a provision which Harvard faculty members said violates principles of academic freedom, has been extended for four more years after Congress renewed the Patriot Act yesterday. Although the renewal was delayed in the Senate...
For a place founded by a bunch of ministers in order to train a bunch more, Harvard seems to have plenty of reason, but not a lot of faith. Undergraduates don’t have to touch religion with a ten-foot-pole if they don’t want...