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...penalty. "Free kick, they lost," his father says with a laugh. The parents concentrated on their children's intellectual side--in ways that made their friends snicker. One of the kids--Spitzer is the youngest of three--would be made responsible for leading a dinner discussion on a topic of the day. When they traveled, they would test the kids on what they were seeing. The Spitzers also attempted to impart a sense of compassion. "We tried to teach them that it isn't enough just to make your own pile," says Bernard...
...little late to take a stand on this when we've already got women reporters in the male golf-club locker room. Trent Lott had us, for several weeks, discussing why segregation is bad. It was like our national high school debate team accidentally picked up a topic list from...
...biggest European news stories was going to be the supposed rise of anti-Semitism, you'd tell him Joel Stein is actually a Dutch name. Maybe we're living in the past because we feel all freaked out about the future. It just feels good to retreat to topics previously explored and controversies already settled. Instead of devoting extra airtime to terrorism in Bali and Israel, unrest in Venezuela, nukes in North Korea or arms laundering in Yemen, we gobble up huge scoops of recycled news. Reading the newspapers this year was like settling back with some frozen-in-time...
Arguments that support abortion rights take as a given that a fetus is not a person. HRL takes the opposite position. While our opponents find a fetus’ lack of personhood obvious and try to squelch debate on the topic by focusing exclusively on the rights of a mother, we think fetal personhood is a question that needs to be carefully examined by voters (the target audience for the postering campaign) in order for them to make an informed voting decision. Consideration of fetal personhood is also important to any woman considering aborting a fetus. Our posters seek...
...optional. Why not tell the applicants to fill out this section if—and only if—they think they fall into one of the two categories? Why not make a legacy check a box on the Harvard Application Supplement and expand the first additional essay topic from “Unusual circumstances in your life” to “Unusual circumstances in your life, including academic adversity overcome,” obviating the need for a family section on the Common Application altogether while more accurately describing the adversity overcome...