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Watching the 112th Harvard-Yale Game certainly tends to make one reflect. The Game was first played in 1875, and the ritual has been repeated with reverence and care for more than a century. To understand that this is one of Harvard's more recent innovations is truly to realize the unparalleled place this University has in our national story. Unfortunately, even the extraordinary becomes mundane when experienced too often, and we begin to forget to take notice of that which has the potential to inspire. So many of us, myself included, have little sense of the majestic chain...
...Muslims-- called Bosniacs in the documents--and Bosnian Croats. All citizens will be free to travel in both parts of the country, and roadblocks and checkpoints are to come down. Both entities will have presidents and legislatures, and so will the central government, which is carefully weighted to reflect the Bosniac, Croat and Serb ethnic groups...
When asked to reflect on the reasons for his fatigue, Rudenstine points to a variety of time-consuming--and time-dependent--items on his agenda during his first three years in office...
...debate over the divorce ban, one commonly heard argument was that in prohibiting divorce the Irish state was forcing Catholic moral teaching upon non-Catholics. The dispute raises a fundamental question: Can we justify imposing laws that reflect the religious beliefs of one particular group upon an entire nation composed of people with differing religious beliefs? Such laws are attacked as constituting an "imposition of morality." In this alleged tyranny of the majority, the dominant group in a state compels the other groups to live according to beliefs that these minorities do not possess...
Keyes is absolutely right. All laws, even the most innocuous and widely accepted ones, reflect a certain subjective worldview. All laws rely on certain assumptions that are distinctly moral in nature. To say that human beings have a right to life that must be respected, or to say (as a utilitarian might) that we should recognize a right to life in order to maximize societal utility, is already to take a moral stance that does not lie beyond dispute...