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Initially, stunned pedestrians may have wondered when this woman had time to develop such charmingly attractive features in utero. However, upon seeing that she was the brainchild of the perennially embryo-anthropomorphizing students of Harvard Right to Life, onlookers quickly grasped the more metaphorical nature of her message: A life is a life, whether embryo or adult, and any destruction of an embryo is thus no different from capital punishment...
Visitors must go through a purification ritual upon entering the exhibit...
...than it seems because conscious knowledge of the prejudice is not enough to erase it. Approaching the subject from a moral philosopher’s standpoint, panelist Tommie Shelby, the Loeb associate professor of social sciences and of African and African-American studies, pointed out that society relies heavily upon the impartiality of police officers, judges, and jury members. “Does such research warrant deep skepticism towards our criminal justice system?” Shelby asked. In her discussion, Banaji pointed to studies that show hope for overcoming mind bugs. One such study found that having friends...
...Undergraduate Council voted unanimously last night to call upon the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) to repeal the tax it instituted this year on all donations to the Harvard Gift Fund. Money given to the tax-deductible gift fund generally comes from alumni and passes to the designated student groups. The FAS tax will start at 5 percent this year and increase to 15 in three years. FAS currently taxes donations to the gift fund at a rate under 2 percent, according to UC Student Affairs Committee Chair Ryan A. Petersen ’08, a sponsor of last...
...Democrats took over the House. The Republicans claim it would result in higher taxes, weakened national security and slower economic growth, all charges the Democrats dispute. But observers on both sides of the political aisle seem to agree on one thing: an era of unprecedented gridlock could soon descend upon Washington. With partisan Democrats in control of at least one chamber of Congress and the Bush Administration riding out its last two years in the White House, the thinking goes, the nation's capital would descend into endless hearings, investigations and political scoresettling - and no legislation would get through...