Word: arguments
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Both inside and outside the U.S. Supreme Court last week, the endless argument over abortion came to a critical confrontation. Outside there was a | raucous standoff on the courthouse steps and plaza, where some 200 demonstrators, pro and con, sang, chanted and shouted. Inside, where the noise could not penetrate, the nine Justices were assembled to hear arguments in William L. Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, a case that could leave in tatters the pivotal Roe v. Wade decision that legalized abortion in 1973. In both places many of the issues were the same. But inside, though the language...
There is an academic argument for studying military science on campus to which I lend my unqualified support. Harvard does well to offer courses in military policy and to provide forums for military speakers. Students are given an opportunity to understand military thinking, even if they disagree with it. An academic institution must not censure the study and discussion of any idea. However, we must distinguish between studying military science in the Government Department and sponsoring an organization on campus that actively discriminates against women and homosexuals...
...council's lively and admittedly uninformed debate during last Sunday's meeting paled in comparison to the argument which raged across campus later in the week--spurred on by pleas for support from students on both sides of the controversy...
...argue that this will ease the way for low-income students who use ROTC scholarships to pay their way through college. But Harvard students already have the option of joining ROTC. Bringing ROTC to campus would go beyond providing opportunity--it would be embracing the organization and accepting the argument that low-income students need to join it. And that is a step Harvard cannot afford to take...
...Holocaust is also wrongly invoked by both extremes of the Palestinians homeland debate. Some far right political leaders interpret the Holocaust as a carte blanche for mass detentions, brutal beatings or even expulsion of Arabs from the territories. Since we suffered, the argument goes, no one can prevent us from making Palestinians suffer too. "Never again--and who cares what you think," wrote Meyer Kahane, the foremost exponent of this view, in The New York times...