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...these concerns trivial, they also affect less than a third of the student population. What I suggest here is not a tyranny of the majority, but rather the common sense realization that it is irresponsible to spend time on Quad-exclusive issues when there are more significant matters at stake, ones whose impacts extend across the undergraduate population. Let’s talk about online transcript requests. Let’s talk about improving training for Teaching Fellows. Let’s talk about better publicity for UC-funded parties. The concerns raised so vociferously and so often by Quad...
...letter to Science, noting that ?accusations made in the press about the validity of the experiments published in South Korea are, in our opinion, best resolved within the scientific community... we encourage Hwang?s laboratory to cooperate with us to perform an independent test of his cell lines.? At stake, say the scientists, is the fledging field of stem cell science, which holds the potential of introducing new ways to treat disease...
...ranked first in the country, or Dartmouth, who’s in the bottom third of the ECAC.” And despite all the history, Stone maintained, the Crimson isn’t feeling any added pressure. “There’s always a lot at stake when you put on your jersey,” Stone said. “Our approach will be to go out and win our next game.” Face-off against the Big Green will be at 7 p.m. tonight...
...only democracy that's at stake. So is Tsang's own future. Earlier this year the Chinese leadership replaced the ineffectual Tung Chee-hwa with the more competent Tsang, hoping his popularity could persuade Hong Kongers to accept a slower pace of democratization. As they grow increasingly frustrated with Beijing, however, they may come to direct their anger at a more accessible target: Tsang. (Massive street protests played a part in Tung's departure.) This would be bad for the city. Tsang does seem to have Hong Kong's best interests at heart. After the Dec. 4 demonstration, he remarked...
...many soldiers. But the question of militarism is too important for liberals to pull their punches out of a misplaced sense of class guilt.As the Supreme Court prepares to reject HLS’s right to enforce its anti-discrimination policies, it is worth recognizing the larger issues at stake in this debate. Gay rights are far more important than the protection of litterbugs, but, at times ,even that principle is not the central question in the debate over the Solomon Amendment. We must determine how we as Harvard students should view the military. The question isn?...