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...proposed missile shield will not only encourage overly militaristic behavior in the Pentagon, but it will also seriously damage our already-tenuous relationship with the Russian Federation. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russia has had a rocky relationship with its former Warsaw Pact allies, especially Poland. Moreover, Moscow has viewed the continued expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance into Central and Eastern Europe as evidence of growing American hegemony...
...these comparisons are a bit weak, and considering the myriad of nonsensical house t-shirts that have made their way onto the bosoms of many Harvard students, we don't think the tenuous relationship between Pertile and Corleone is a cause for concern. The real issue seems to be, is a comparison to Corleone necessarily a bad thing? Also, the t-shirt's a joke, if you didn't notice (via the Eliot list...
...attempt to include a positive representation of varying sexual orientations alongside its previous goals of racial diversity and body acceptance. However, some members of the Harvard community worry that the controversial show might again mishandle such sensitive and complex issues in its primary ambition to entertain. A TENUOUS RELATIONSHIP WITH BLACKCASTEver since its inception 15 years ago, Eleganza has implored students to “walk the runway, redefine beauty, and change a life.” The fashion show was originally founded by Harvard’s BlackCAST, a student organization which, according to its constitution...
...that Mugabe had the right to invest in Hong Kong real estate. "Hong Kong is a free port ... even Falun Gong practitioners can buy a property there," said the unnamed official. The connection between a marginalized religious sect and a tyrant in power for three decades may be tenuous, but, for Zimbabweans, half of whom face malnutrition, it must elicit the most cynical, if fleeting, of smiles...
...state has a law that mandates vaccination before a child enters public school. States do, however, provide exemptions for medical, religious, and philosophical reasons—and parents have started to request exemptions on the basis of flawed science. Parents who invoke such exemptions as a response to the tenuous evidence and specious reasoning that promote a claim debunked by scientists are truly doing a disservice to all children. The incidence rate of measles has sharply risen over the past few years; more people were infected from January to July 2008 than during any other time since...