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...such blessing ceremonies violates Harvard's nondiscrimination policies concerning sexual orientation. Of course, this is absolute nonsense. If Memorial Church is to be a Christian church at all, it must be willing to accept that tenets of Christianity contrary to the policies of Harvard University will be practiced and taught there. If this is unacceptable, then the church should not only allow same-sex blessing ceremonies but also stop discriminating against non-Christian religions and Jewish and Muslim services as well. In passing this resolution, it is doubtful that the council meant so much to urge enforcement of Harvard...
...already nailed down his schedule for this semester, is optimistic about his courses. "I know the classes are going to be good and well taught," he says...
What lessons can be drawn from the new findings? Among other things, it is clear that foreign languages should be taught in elementary school, if not before. That remedial education may be more effective at the age of three or four than at nine or 10. That good, affordable day care is not a luxury or a fringe benefit for welfare mothers and working parents but essential brain food for the next generation. For while new synapses continue to form throughout life, and even adults continually refurbish their minds through reading and learning, never again will the brain be able...
Tiepolo loved such ironies and reversals; they were part of the code of his imagination. Out of the traditions of Venetian painting, he taught himself to be one of the most audacious space composers in the history of art, capable of dissolving a solid ceiling into light and vapor. But the distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern, even though there isn't an artist today who could begin to rival that virtuosity...
...this juncture everyone thinks, "So what?" Well, if you had such a friend as Dartboard has, you might not ask, "So what?" Harvard may not have taught us to be noble or scholarly or a patriotic, but it has taught us how to be disgruntled...