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...appropriate. In this case, New Yorkers haven’t lost much, but if politicians can ban the socially intolerable, then they can eventually ban the politically controversial. Such a move would lead to an even greater suppression of free speech, and is one against which we caution. We commend the New York legislature for its zeal in fighting racism, but as for this bill, we hope it collects dust on a shelf in Albany...
...their water pressure has decreased and that it now takes longer to wash. Many students, however, have said they cannot tell the difference. Leverett House Building Manager Paul J. Hegarty told The Crimson that students there have not complained, suggesting that the majority have not had a problem. We commend Harvard for its attention to saving water and in particular for finding a way to do so that has a low impact on most students’ lives. Energy efficiency has been a theme of the past few months from Allston to President Faust’s installation. Harvard should...
...great historical figure but not a great dramatic one. The historical Queen undoubtedly had tolerant and democratic impulses of the kind that are imputed to her here. But she was also a canny, hidden and manipulative monarch, not given to broad, emotionally riveting gestures. I suppose you can commend Blanchett for playing her that way, even if it leads us to see her as more of a modern career woman - sly and ironic at her best - than she must actually have been. But there's something anti-emotional in a performance that mostly stands on ceremony - until it falls into...
...America finds its stereotypes crushed in the collision between private needs and public pressures. While some commend the nurturing nature of the idealized New Father, others cringe at the idea of genderless parenting and defend the importance of men being more than pale imitations of mothers. "If you become Mr. Mom," says Shapiro, "the family has a mother and an assistant mother. That isn't what good fathers are doing today." And fathers themselves wrestle with memories of their own fathers, vowing to do it differently, and struggling to figure...
...shocked by "Stopping the Exodus," about the challenge of keeping students in school [May 14]. I commend you for making it known that many students drop out of school. I am an eighth-grader at a private school--and no, my teacher did not put me up to writing this. Where I come from, it's considered a tragedy if students do not get into their top choice for college, and they are condemned for settling for their second choice. Thank you for giving me some perspective on the experience of those students whose goal is not getting into college...