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...issue of women in the workplace, said BGLTSA Community Chair Noa Grayevsky, who attended the event. Multiple students challenged Mansfield’s opinions concerning gender and family in respect to gay and transgender people. Mansfield responded that he thought gay and transgender people are on “society??s margin” and should remain there. “Substitutes for the traditional family are dysfunctional,” he said, “You wouldn’t want children to grow up in them.” “Professor Mansfield even-handedly...
...Cambridge knows. City Hall denied responsibility and sent the question over to the Cambridge Historical Society??which immediately declared that City Hall owned it. The Department of Public Works didn’t know, either. Its public relations manager, Rebecca Fuentes, wrote in an e-mail: “No one I have talked to seems to know the history of the clock. I think we had assumed it belonged to the bank...
...arbitrary factors beyond their control. That our society chooses to monetarily reward certain talents (intelligence, for example) over others is inherently arbitrary. It is insignificant, at least from a moral perspective, that certain people are born with more prized talents. That inequity should not be the basis of denying society??s poorest individuals a baseline standard of living.If it is arbitrary, however, that Harvard’s poorest workers happen to not possess the talents our society prizes, then it is also arbitrary that these workers should be the prime beneficiaries of a campaign to achieve a more...
...light touch and Weil’s technical facility brought out the fanciful Frenchness of Ravel’s music. At the end of the evening, the audience did not leap to its feet, but its response was certainly enthusiastic. A promising opening to the season, the Harvard Piano Society??s Fall Concert celebrated the inclusive mentality of the performing organization—a distinguishing mark among the often steeply competitive Harvard music groups. Note: On Saturday, HPS will host a panel about impediements facing women in the music industry. Visit http://hcs.harvard.edu/piano.
Mark A. Adomanis is exactly right: as a non-churchgoer, I take away from “society??s vitality and general cohesiveness.” After all, as a secularist, I eat babies, hate America, and want to raise taxes...