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Last week, an uproar mounted when the Harvard Right to Life (HRL) put up posters depicting an in utero fetus named Elena, captioned by crayon font, reading, “I’m 25 days old…and my heart already BEATS!!” Some in our community have taken justice in their own hands and deemed these posters unfit for public view. They have taken what in their view is a reasonable course of action: tearing down the posters. They are wrong. Vigilantes, we do not need your protection. HRL has a right to free expression...
...congressional uproar leaves Dubai's bosses feeling burned by a double standard, one that promotes globalization only when it is within the U.S.'s comfort zone. "The media is saying 'The world is flat', but when it comes to Arabs there are a lot of barriers," says a Dubai official. "People are thinking about the clash of civilizations. It's important for the world to see us working together." Sheika Lubna al-Qasimi, Dubai's Minister of Economy and Planning, predicts that the bottom line will win out after the review. "At the end of the day, this is about...
Posters depicting in utero fetuses raised eyebrows and a small uproar last week. One of the posters, the second in a series created by Harvard Right to Life (HRL), featured the picture of a fetus named Elena with the words, “I’m 25 days old...and my heart already BEATS...
Kennedy School alum Robert B. Zoellick, now the deputy secretary of state, returned to his old stomping grounds last night and defended the Bush administration’s stance on a controversial seaport deal at an Institute of Politics forum. Zoellick’s remarks came amid a nationwide uproar over a transaction that would leave several key U.S. port terminals—including New Orleans and Newark, N.J.—in the hands of a Dubai state-owned firm. The Dubai firm, DP World, bid $6.8 billion to buy the British company that currently operates the ports...
From my perspective as an alumnus, the goings on at Harvard (“Faculty Uproar Led to Ouster,” news, Feb. 22) comes down to this question: is the University to be run for the benefit of students or faculty? President Lawrence Summers thinks it should be run for the benefit of students, that is, that they should get a sound education to prepare them for productive and fulfilled lives. A majority of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and apparently the Corporation think the university should be run for the benefit of the faculty, that...