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...find it unbelievable that anyone can beat offensive and tiresome "fat" jokes into the ground week after week, but worse still, the message is beaten into our subconscious. Let us hope that Harvard students can resist the temptation to punish others for their body types. Such prejudice should be considered as cruel as racism or homophobia. Martha K. Taylor '92 Skyler Vinton '92 Co-Directors Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach, (ECHO...
...earnest people try to understand the complex forces at work and calculate the potential costs, human and material, of going to war. Until the Administration makes clear whether its goal is to defend Saudi Arabia, or protect the flow of oil, or free Kuwait, or crush Saddam, or punish aggression, or all of these, the public may not be able to find much justice in the cause -- or judge whether it is a goal worth dying...
...electoral process. Hate mongering, deception and mudslinging are all widely deplored, and then used to great effect. How can voters fail to be cynical when politicians buy their jobs by selling favors and use the money to ensure that voters don't get much of a chance to punish them? Public opinion surveys around the nation registered disgust and sorrow at the processes by which lawmakers are elected and through which they govern. As long as American politics drifts away from democracy's dreams, the voters' only real choice will...
...vote, which was intended both to punish Shamir and to mollify the Arab states aligned with the U.S. against Iraq, offered the strongest indication yet that the gulf crisis may gradually forge a new U.S. approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Frosty stares and stiff messages between Washington and Jerusalem are hardly rarities. But the gulf crisis is fundamentally altering American interests and alliances, strengthening ties to Arab states that will expect more evenhandedness from Washington in return. Officials in Jerusalem and Washington -- one side in fear, the other in hope -- are privately predicting that if Bush prevails against Iraq...
Robert M. Sweeney of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities said the bill may unfairly punish schools in areas with high crime rates, and Merkowitz suggested that schools in urban areas may be put at a disadvantage because of this discrepancy...