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...What should we do as transient members of this community? Our actions are an unsustainable solution for the people living in this village. In other words, is it fair to provide something that will no longer be available in a month? But at the same time is it possible to let someone go without what ought to be a basic human right? And how can we ever act without the foresight of knowing the consequences of our actions? As of now, I have no idea—but I am hoping that my experience here will offer...
...percent majority, made it constitutionally illegal for a gay couple to adopt children. Regardless of your personal beliefs on these issues, Americans, as a people, need to have a conversation on whether it’s a good idea to change the highest law of the state to satisfy transient concerns such as these...
...bigger worry is Florida's central voter database. In a state whose residents are as transient as Florida's, concerns about who is eligible and ineligible to vote are always acute - especially since Florida now has a "no match, no vote" law that tightens voter-identification requirements at the polls. The database against which IDs are checked failed miserably in 2000, when thousands of appropriately registered voters, especially African Americans, were turned away at polling sites. (Many were mistakenly pegged as convicted felons, who at that time were ineligible to vote in Florida even after serving their sentences; Crist...
...After a debate against the Dems on Oct. 15, I ask Motley if he allows himself to question his political stances as much as he urges liberals to question theirs. He expresses a refreshingly open-minded opinion about the transient nature of belief...
...this person, remember that park, grew up watching the same commercials.After a time, our lives at Harvard take on the same aura of familiarity as our homes. We begin to associate the streets and shops of Cambridge with the people we have loved here. But our college lives are transient in a way that most home lives are not. We change rooms every year like a game of musical chairs, change friends, pack up, move in, move out. Harvard may provide us with many things our homes do not, but permanence is not one of them.As homesick as many...