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...devoutly Christian and love one another. As Oregonians, we were able to cast our mail-in ballots before Election Day, and since then my friends and I have quietly sought to heal the wounds inflicted by this heated campaign. We've asked one another probing questions and listened with respect and good humor to the answers. I try to avoid eye rolling, although I cannot say it has never happened. And we have kept in mind that our goals and values are the same; we just have different ideas about how to get there. Kathleen Presnell Roseburg, Oregon...
...really believe that the reason the Ivy League presidents don’t change the policy is because of the enormous amount of respect they have for their predecessors, and with good reason. President Lawrence Summers has been preceded by luminaries such as Charles Eliot, A. Lawrence Lowell and Nathan Pusey, and I agree with his respect for these extraordinary...
...another reason to be confident, as well, even beyond the points, the awards, the experience and the respect she commands from teammates and coaches...
...interview with the Crimson, the President says that the duty of focusing on women and tenure is not exclusive. “This isn’t a special responsibility, it’s a general responsibility with respect to all searches,” Summers says. But by diffusing responsibility—among departments, chairs, Divisional Deans, search committees, and various other administrators—there is no culpability when things go awry and no consistent effort to hiring and promoting women...
...course, respect the democratic process; marriage is a state matter, and citizens have the right to vote their conscience and determine how their state defines civil marriage. We do not, however, respect the efforts of politicians to dirty this issue—one that affects the life and liberty of millions of Americans on a fundamental level—by playing to prejudices and potentially misleading the voter with ulterior electoral motives. The ballot questions in each state varied naturally, but in a majority of these states the wording was ambiguous enough to include the banning of rights imparted...