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...irony is that Turkey has been held up in recent years as a heartening example of a state that successfully straddled the Western and Islamic worlds, keeping religious extremism at bay while displaying an impressive combination of stable governance and economic vigor. Now its status as a role model is in doubt. "We thought we had developed the ability to democratically resolve our issues," says Hakan Altinay, director of the Open Society Institute, a pro-democracy group in Istanbul. "We can't say that now. A society that cannot reach a consensus on its own has a serious problem." Mark...
...perfectly acceptable to talk openly about a decision to have premarital sex or to have multiple sex partners. One-night stands are losing their status as reprehensible. In Harvard dining halls, swapping weird sex tales is hardly an irregular occurrence. As a result of this sexual liberalism becoming the status quo, social conservatism is being reduced to a reaction...
...great deal to get you where you are today,” she said. Joyce Y. Zhang ’09, vice-president of the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association and a Crimson news editor, asked Chao what obstacles she had faced as a result of her double minority status. “I have to confess to you, I hate that question,” Chao responded. Although she acknowledged that injustice sometimes exists in the workplace, Chao asked students not to overstate its impact. “You will find doors opening at every turn...
When Harvard’s notorious sex magazine “H Bomb” lost its student group status last month because of incomplete registration, the collective gasp was far quieter in the magazine’s death than it was in its birth. The images and the words from an activities fair of yesteryear are still fresh in my mind, when the main selling point for “H Bomb”—all two issues of it—was the chatter it generated beyond Harvard’s gates...
This discrimination is based primarily on the ability to judge people based on their minority status. When white terrorists like Timothy McVeigh or Ted Kaczynski kill innocent people, it’s ridiculous to think that their ethnicity had anything to do with the despicable acts. But when the perpetrators are minorities or worse yet, foreigners, ethnicity suddenly becomes a much bigger deal...