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...Cramped in the back seat like a dozen undergrads in the Widener stacks elevator, Aaron, Josh and I reach a tacit understanding early in our journey. If we want to survive, we're going to have to keep Daniel awake, we're going to have to make a lot of noise. We have a few options. One is to boisterously exchange tales of sexual conquest. We opt for karaoke...
Alex A. Boni-Saenz '01 made a motion to rescind the ROTC bill passed two weeks ago. The bill, which endorsed stronger support of Harvard students in ROTC, drew fire from students who saw it as a tacit endorsement of the military's discriminatory "don't ask, don't tell" policy towards gays and lesbians...
BGLTSA leaders said they were concerned that the measure may call for the University to give tacit approval to the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which prevents people who are openly gay and lesbian from serving in the military...
...ROTC bill passed but originally endorsed a return of ROTC to campus, drew fire from students who saw the action as a tacit endorsement of the military's discrimination against homosexuals...
...certain sense the conditions are ideal, but also, just because of that, we are unable to walk. We want to walk: so we need friction. Back to the rough ground!" Where before he had favored explicit logical rules, now he spoke of language games, governed by tacit mutual understanding, and he proposed to replace the sharp boundaries of set theory with what he called family resemblances. "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language," he declared, and language bewitches us by enticing us to concoct "theories" to solve philosophical problems that arise only "when...