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...choose between their faith and educational future. But such a claim presumes that women are in fact making an individual choice to wear their headscarf. While many certainly claim to, such choices neglect the backdrop of a strongly patriarchal and oppressive religious climate in which gender-biased practices constrain rather than enable a woman’s autonomy. By limiting women’s capacity for self-reflection and free action, this backdrop of religious conservatism has robbed too many women of the ability to meaningfully contemplate alternative lifestyles—without which individual consent is meaningless. Genuine consent requires...
...will take more than this incident to solidify an anti-Iran coalition, however. Reem al Hashimy, deputy at the embassy of the United Arab Emirates in Washington, says her country will go along with U.N. efforts to constrain Iran but won't "stick its head out" any further...
...minimum sentences mandated by many state legislatures, sentencing guidelines are not absolutely binding, yet appeals courts have a tendency to overturn lower judges’ sentences when they diverge substantially from the guidelines’ suggestions. Although these regulations are useful tools that improve consistency in sentencing, they can constrain judges by preventing them from considering cases in light of mitigating circumstances. Empowering judges to evaluate cases more thoroughly, without fear of being overruled by an appeals court, will free judges to assign the most appropriate punishments. The case of crack cocaine illustrates just how important this judicial freedom...
...updated to provide air-conditioning, and gymnasiums must have all the latest exercise gadgetry. These and other luxuries—out of reach for most of the world’s people as well as most Americans—have a heavy environmental impact. Unless members of the University constrain their consumption, wind turbines and solar panels will do little more than serve as part of a public relations campaign. STEPHEN HELFER Cambridge, MA October...
...ways that enable us fully to engage in such exploration, as we have begun to do by creating the Broad Institute, by founding cross school departments, by launching a School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. We must overcome barriers both within and beyond Harvard that could slow or constrain such work, and we must provide the resources and the facilities—like the new science buildings in both Cambridge and Allston – to support it. Our obligation to the future makes additional demands. Universities are, uniquely, a place of philosophers as well as scientists. It is urgent...