Word: wolfson
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies, has another vision, which he describes as a personal, not departmental, stance...
...question is, has all of this gone too far? Last year, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Studies Jay M. Harris lamented on this page that Harvard is not sufficiently academically rigorous for its students. He cited the copious amounts of time spent on extracurricular activities as a serious impediment to creating a culture of scholarly learning. My English professor this semester has begged us over and over again to find quite spaces to sit and read poetry, lest the contemporary distractions of college life overwhelm...
...recognizing a marriage, there's no logical reason why three or four people who say 'We sincerely love each other' should be denied this status," he explains. Gay-rights groups also expect wide repercussions, though of a very different kind. "This decision was an extraordinary turning point," declares Evan Wolfson, an attorney at the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund who served as co-counsel for the three couples, "because we now have in the cool, clear light of a courtroom a judge saying that there is no reason for government discrimination in marriage...
...winning the freedom to marry. That is the historical moment we are living in," said Wolfson, marriage project director of the National Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, and lead counsel for Baehr v. Miike, the country's most prominent case concerning gay marriage...
...Wolfson compared the fight for same-sex marriages to the struggle in the 1960s legalize inter-racial marriages...