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Anyone who condones torture simultaneously rejects the ideological values that define the United States. Systematically depriving people of their rights by electrocution, rape, or water-boarding contradicts the principles of this country. The war in Iraq, like the intervention in Kosovo, was supposed to reflect the U.S.’ absolute commitment to freedom, democracy, and human rights. To use Bush’s words, “America is a strong nation and honorable in the use of our strength. We exercise power without conquest, and we sacrifice for the liberty of strangers. Americans are a free people...
...earlier this year analyzing the national downturn, Kaplan said participation rates can decline if institutions concentrate on landing large contributions, rather than on increasing the number of alumni donors.Indeed, Harvard fundraisers have yielded record donations, raising $590 million in fiscal year 2005, its second-highest annual total. The sum reflects both large gifts and contributions from donors who are not alumni.But Rapier said the declining alumni participation does not reflect a change in strategy to land larger gifts and target non-alumni.“New areas of focus for Harvard development are being done by new staff, while...
...held accountable for their disingenuous activity and false advertising: we can expect more from our own peers than the marketing of new goods to an unsuspecting group of students under the guise of personal expression and the breaking down of repressive taboos. College is presumably a moment for reflection and self-definition aside from commercialism, rather than the time to be transformed into the faithful consumer of new and varied products. The Nov. 3 event was crude, not because of the coarse language used by the speaker, but because it was a simple display of the market at work...
...UC’s pro-worker vote is a case in point of how student institutions can reflect and articulate the values so many students already hold close to them. The bill affirms the value of Harvard as a community, one that includes workers and their families...
...Song of Ice and Fire. It's set mostly in the Seven Kingdoms, an unstable amalgamation of nations caught in the act of vigorously ripping itself to shreds following the death of King Robert Baratheon. Martin shoots the action from many angles, with a dozen narrators, the better to reflect its gritty, twisty, many-sided nature and its vast cast of would-be queens and kings, rogues, bastards, bandits, madmen, mercenaries, exiles, priests and various uncategorizable wild cards. Martin may write fantasy, but his politik is all real...