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...basic position I hold in the book,” he said, “is that while we do have responsibilities to certain identities and that we’re not free to do, as it were, absolutely anything in terms of them, people are responsible themselves in the management of different identities and their priorities in different contexts...
...basic position I hold in the book,” he said, “is that while we do have responsibilities to certain identities and that we’re not free to do, as it were, absolutely anything in terms of them, people are responsible themselves in the management of different identities and their priorities in different contexts...
Plagiarism is typically caused by desperation, such as rapidly approaching deadlines. Naturally, this is not an acceptable excuse. The Ad Board is quicker to discipline students for academic dishonesty than Larry Summers is to gobble an entire platter of mayonnaise sandwiches, and rightfully so: plagiarism undermines the basic trust so fundamental to the academic experience. According to Secretary of the Administrative Board John T. O’Keefe, the typical response to documented cases of plagiarism is a requirement to withdraw from the College—effectively a two-semester suspension from school—although a range of disciplinary...
...Employee Free Choice Act now before Congress, if passed, could start to restore this basic American freedom. So could Harvard—but first we have to change our attitude towards our unions...
...large corporations outweigh those granted to working Americans. Apparently, the freedom of faceless institutions is more important to some than the freedom of individuals. We must ask ourselves which side we are on. And ultimately, we must come to recognize union rights for what they really are: a basic thread running through the fabric of a free society. If employers keep pulling away at it, the rest of our freedoms might just unravel...