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...people were essential to his life, Antoine had diverse interests. He learned Spanish, French, and German. He played soccer and tennis, and he swam. During his year off, he studied to become a pastry chef while working at the local Whole Foods. “He wanted to make sure that he was always learning and growing and meeting new people,” Altchek said. Antoine’s family would not take phone calls, and the cause of Antoine’s death remains undisclosed. —Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...days of the last century, the years before the collapse of the economy and the World Trade Center towers, political discourse in the U.S. was, too often, rutted in issues that didn't affect the lives of most people. They were important moral and symbolic issues, to be sure. And they were difficult issues, although their subtleties were obscured by extremists, who tended to dominate the debate. Still, the people directly affected by the so-called social issues - abortion, gay marriage, racial preferences - pale in comparison with the tens of millions who have lost their jobs and fortunes...
...unfair to those who succeeded - including the dyslexic firefighter Frank Ricci, who hired tutors to help him pass and whose name adorns the case. The lack of minority success does not necessarily signify the presence of racial prejudice. The best way to rectify such a situation is to make sure the next test is truer. An appropriate 21st century standard should be proof of actual discrimination against specific individuals...
...would probably moot our case," Olson told TIME. "It would be great if [the new ballot initiative] would be successful, but ... a loss would be very unfortunate - two successive popular vote losses in the nation's largest and one of the most liberal states. I'm not quite sure I follow the risk-benefit analysis." That's exactly what gay-rights activists worried about this suit have been thinking...
...think it will evolve in the future? One thing we can safely guess is that a society in which inequalities are less grotesque [would] encourage much higher levels of kindness. It would be wonderful to imagine that we might be heading in that direction, but we've sure got a long...