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...religious knowledge and the flattering comparisons he drew between Christianity and Marxism. "Karl Marx," he said, "would have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount." Christians, he added, had been excluded from Cuba's government not for ideological reasons but for historical mistakes in supporting the prerevolution status quo. Suddenly the subject of religion was no longer taboo...
...course, King was indeed a revolutionary in certain ways. He was not satisfied with the status quo. He was the fountainhead of a major change in American attitudes on race. Indeed, America's current awareness of its racial problems owes much to King; before his leadership of the civil rights movement, most white Americans gave little or no thought to issues of race. To be sure, King held views that could be called revolutionary...
Frustration bubbles barely beneath the campus surface. Students don't usually raise the issue publicly, but in conversations with female friends, the non-existent social and dating scenes are recurrent themes. Women are not satisfied with the status quo, which is sans dating to the umpteenth...
...this point, my male readers might be grumbling and curling their hands into clenched fists. I hear you. Harvard's men are clearly not thrilled with the status quo either. The proof of the pudding is Kirkland House's famous Secret Santa ritual. It was overwhelming to note that while the women requested flowers, candle lit dinners and slow dances, just how many of the House's male residents listed massages from beautiful women among their fantasies...
...There's all kinds of research which shows that peer review and secret meetings and very unique procedures tend to maintain the status quo," she says...