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...seen an order like this,” said Robert Winters, editor of the Cambridge Civic Journal. “Anytime there’s a dispute with Harvard or a property tax issue like we have right now, there’s immediately a knee-jerk reaction to put pressure on the universities to cough up taxes...
...recent Crimson article (News, “Parents Question Homeless Policy,” Nov. 16) I was quite surprised at the reaction of Cambridge parents to what they claimed was the City’s putting “the rights of homeless people” above the “safety and health of children.” Homeless people make use of parks and other public spaces because there are no other places for them...
...equal rightsfirst for African Americans and now for homosexuals. But they have also been enthralled by the most intolerant of their interest groups. The liberal hostility to funding faith-based social programswhich are provided mostly by poor black and Latino congregations who need the financial helpis a witlessly secularist reaction against some of the most successful antipoverty efforts in the U.S. The liberals' defense of abortion beyond the first trimester has no moral rationale unless the life of the mother is at risk. Their full-throated embrace of freedom of speech ignores the social pollution caused by the arrant commercialization...
...couple weeks ago, I wrote a controversial column that garnered an intensely charged reaction. Since then, I have been thinking about what we know, don’t know and assume about the written word. No matter how thoroughly we read, we never really know how a piece came to be. Do we, as readers, think the process is actually less important than the end product, or is it just less glamorous...
...storm that brewed in response to my column, I spoke about the debacle with friends. One question continually surfaced: What did I expect, anyway? I knew I was writing about a touchy topic, so didn’t I expect a touchy reaction? Well, sure. But I was happier believing in the fantasy of process over product...