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...military has been stuck with the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. It’s a policy which (if they were ethically permitted to speak about it) most Harvard cadets would rightly decry. More than discriminatory, its ostensible raison d’etre—to create a unified fighting force—is dubious at best. But ROTC never asked for the policy and has little interest beyond a legal one in enforcing it. Rather, it is a creation of Congress, signed into law by President Clinton...
...Quad is dead or dying? Most residents say no. The Quad fares well in senior exit surveys—two of the top five Houses in the survey last year were in the Quad. But it’s hard to see how the Quad will ever escape its raison d’etre—isolation. And with this Tuesday’s announcement on the future of Allston, it now appears that University President Lawrence H. Summers may build new undergraduate housing closer to the river, leaving Currier, Cabot, and Pforzheimer behind. Under this plan, undergraduates won?...
Treason, lies and recession have sheltered Democrats from the bitter realization that they, like the Red Sox, have grown to depend on their evil other—the axis of Bush, Rove and Fox News—for their identity and raison d’être. Every boast that backfires, every crony that cheats and every Iraqi that blows himself up arouses a bitter, Bostonian satisfaction in Democratic hearts. Democrats have adopted that corrosive combination of helplessness and hopelessness that finds as much delight in an epic Yankee loss in Game 7 of the World Series, back...
...Andrew D. Arnold Raison D'etre: Rows of comics at the Comic-Con International...
Former Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles praises Gray’s “intimate knowledge of the idiosyncrasies and the goals and the raison d’être” of academic institutions...