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According to Singer, some members have said that removing the magazine would be tantamount to "an abridgement of the First Amendment...
While I find Milgrom-Elcott's editorial interesting for bringing such an exemplary case of church-state co-existence in public schools, I do not care for her misinformation, however benign. Her vision of Dekalb county is tantamount to referring to all of the suburban parts of Middlesex county when referring only to Cambridge, glossing over this community's deserved autonomy from Boston proper. NATHANIEL W. BULLARD '00 March...
Throughout the meal, Burger argued that it was unconscionable to scoop the court, that using information from clerks, whom he assumed were the source of our story, was tantamount to wiretapping the Supreme Court. Each time he launched into a new argument, he would consult a loose-leaf binder he had brought with him. In order to hide this from his dinner partners, he would rock his chair back and put his foot on the edge of our dining room table. And each time he rocked back, the Chief Justice of the United States of America advertised that...
Harvard tends to be a school of fiercely independent individuals. Admitting weakness is tantamount to admitting defeat. The result is a need for solitary solutions for coping with the environment and imposed ignorance of the cold system. Students struggle with personal crises brought on by the Harvard system throughout their stays on campus. The crisis could be rejection by a particular club after many months of comping, or it might be a sense of loneliness because the individual student lacks a desperately desired confidant or significant other...
This is part of the reason why I am a Democrat, although I believe, to the core of my being, that abortion is not only morally wrong, but tantamount to murder. An oxymoronic reality? I voted to re-elect the President in 1996, not because I no longer felt abortion was a major issue or because my views had changed. Instead, I believed that a Democratic administration was the best hope to systematically reduce the number of abortions in this country. The goals of the party are to help strengthen and improve the social safety net this country so desperately...