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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Asians, Caucasian-Americans and Muslims from other ethnic backgrounds praying side by side and embracing one another. Both the Hajj and the Eid foster a sense of community based on common values and principles, the type of community that multicultural societies like ours in the U.S. and at Harvard seek to build...

Author: By Aamir ABDUL Rehman, | Title: Universal Lessons of Eid | 4/9/1998 | See Source »

...reject it as such. For example, liberals wanted to help the poor, especially poor children, so they created a welfare system with perverse incentives that encouraged the birth of children into poverty. For another example, liberals want to open political office to all candidates, so they seek to limit the availability of indispensable campaign funds. The list could continue endlessly, but the point is the same: liberal policies are counterintuitive on their face, lacking logical and factual argument...

Author: By Thomas B. Cotton, | Title: Liberals Phone Home | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

These details don't seem to discourage politicians. It doesn't matter if the idea is feasible or not--by supporting it, they appear "pro-education" or "pro-technology." Likewise, those who seek to ban or filter pornographic material from the Internet usually have political support. After all, no one wants their children exposed to obscene material. Those who oppose such legislation are derisively labeled as "anti-family values" or "criminal defenders." By billing the Internet as vital to our very existence, law-makers can do what they want with it. And so long as there is no obvious harm...

Author: By Richard S. Lee, | Title: Political Potholes on the Superhighway | 4/8/1998 | See Source »

When Margaret fell on hard times, her familyand neighbors advised her to seek public help atthe DTA office in Davis Square...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Recipients Adapt to Welfare Reform | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

Just as white people were a crucial part of the civil rights struggle of African-Americans, just as men stood beside women to seek equality of the sexes, straight people are an integral part of the fight for gay rights. In churches, in the media, in Congress and on campus, heterosexuals can speak with tremendous power and influence precisely because they are heterosexual--because they directly counter stereotypes and prejudices...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, | Title: The Gay-Straight Agenda | 4/1/1998 | See Source »

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