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...principles, then it should first propose that the U.S. reconsider the aid it gives to Arab countries. This aid is given without setting conditions on the Arab governments to adopt true democratic ideals, follow the rule of law, respect women, support gay rights, and observe basic liberties such as freedom of the press—these are all principles shared by America and Israel. Therefore, the Crimson Staff should first suggest that the U.S. reconsider its aid to Saudi Arabia if it is truly committed to the ideals that the U.S. is supposed to uphold...

Author: By Joseph Mandelbaum | Title: LETTER: Foreign Policy Cannot Survive a Double Standard | 4/29/2010 | See Source »

...power of pop music, [is that] it is music that is talking maybe just about kisses and about dancing and about having an ice cream together with your girlfriend in a bar," he said. "[But] that music is perhaps the most powerful because it promotes a sense of freedom that connects to the freedom of expressing yourself as a human being...

Author: By Sophie T. Bearman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Pop Icon Discusses Music, Activism | 4/28/2010 | See Source »

Despite her many accomplishments--she was an author, a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a distinguished professor--nothing could pry her from the people and places she loved best. Even in her passing, she remains a loyal leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilma Mankiller | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...used to play offense,” Pataki said. “But the coaches moved me to midfield a month and a half ago. That really gave me a lot of freedom to push in transition. I saw an opportunity in the middle of the field, and I was able to put it away...

Author: By Aparajita Tripathi, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Big Win Keeps Tournament Hopes Alive for Men's Lacrosse | 4/26/2010 | See Source »

...Woman, like man, is her body,” Beauvoir wrote, “but her body is something other than herself.” Although masculinity coincided with the for-itself—that freedom which makes one uniquely human—femininity coincided with the in-itself—the inhuman or object-like. Man encountered the body as pure instrument, able to be dominated and controlled; woman, by contrast, experienced her body as an inscrutable burden. Biological givens may have had no meaning outside that which society conferred on them, but they still had an objective reality...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Situating Sex | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

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