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...College. I've thought "liberal" to imply a society that maximizes (culturally, legally and economically) each member's freedom to live as he or she wishes. But many who call themselves liberals today interpret their mission as that of imposing a particular set of values on all. In that regard, they differ only in the particulars from the Moral Majority and are distinctly ill-liberal according to my understanding of the word...
Prisoners only have a short period of time out of their cell, and some regard the two-and-a-half hour classes as an escape form the monotony of the cell or weightlifting or basketball...
...fully agree, that Harvard as an institution should not prohibit the acceptance of research support from the CIA or any other agency, so long as the terms and conditions associated with the funds conform with institutional research policies and the existence of the agreement is made public. With regard to personal contracts between individual faculty and intelligence agencies, the guidelines state: "Individual members of the Harvard community may enter into direct or indirect consulting arrangements for the CIA to provide research or analytical services. The individual should report in writing the existence of such an arrangement to the Dean...
...Other experts in Paris laid their own cultural claims. "I regard him first and foremost as an Arab thinker," said Muslim Professor Abderrahmane Badawi of Kuwait University. Huseyin Atay, who teaches religious thought in Saudi Arabia, agreed: "If you didn't know he was Jewish, you might easily make the mistake of saying that a Muslim was writing." Israeli Historian Shlomo Pines said, "Maimonides is the most influential Jewish thinker of the Middle Ages and quite possibly of all time...
Within Judaism, Maimonides is held in high regard by the Orthodox, who frequently quote his sayings and avidly study the Mishneh Torah* (Repetition of the Law), his magisterial systematization of biblical commandments and the Talmud. Many Orthodox ignore his philosophical masterpiece, The Guide of the Perplexed, which continues to inspire secularized Jews and is required reading in the Jewish studies departments that are proliferating in U.S. universities...