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...during the year. In mid-November, the UC passed a resolution in support of Harvard’s janitors, who were, at the time, in contract negotiations with the University. By taking a position on the issue, the UC overstepped its bounds, first because UC representatives are elected without regard to their positions on such political questions, and second because the UC’s proclaiming the opinion of the student body on such an important community issue is beyond its role as a student government.The controversy blew over just in time for this year’s unusually tumultuous...
...believed, as did the men and women who taught at Harvard, that the antidote for hateful ideas was the expression of other ideas. We thought that was the right way to deal with the ideological crises of our time. We called ourselves Liberals.Today, it is no longer possible to regard Harvard as a free and open marketplace of ideas. It has become closed to ideas that are not considered “correct” by some criteria that we do not understand and on which we never had the opportunity to vote. University President Lawrence H. Summers was ousted...
...military role in Afghanistan. ?I don't think it is especially because of what we're doing at the moment, but more because of a sense that Canada is part of that Western camp and is equally complicit with the United States and others in what these people regard as a generalized assault on the values and security of Muslims and Islam in general.? However, he added, ?The connection that has to be worrying is that if Afghanistan is seen by young Muslim radicalized youth in Canada as a sign that Canada has joined an American crusade, then there...
...here that he is resentful of the outside world, not just those who may have committed such acts. He was surprised by a passage in America in Vietnam which details how Americans traditionally think a soldier who commits a war crime should be put to death with little regard to the conditions or insight into the soldier himself. But a common murderer is treated more thoughtfully - his background, childhood, education and social circumstances are taken into consideration when looking at what punishment should be meted out. "Isn't it a strange turn of events that Marines are expected...
...especially Americans, have to start taking their share of responsibility for this situation," says Ram?rez, whose country is the U.S.'s fourth-largest foreign crude supplier. "The U.S.'s reckless oil consumption is turning into its own suicide. The Americans have a lot of work ahead of them with regard to energy policy." At the same time, he adds, "Americans should remember that when your Congress asked the international oil companies last fall to step up and provide subsidized heating fuel oil to poor residents in the U.S., only Citgo" - the oil firm owned by the Venezuelan government...