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...many Harvard students subscribe to the notion that anyone educated outside of these ivy walls, or any idea or institution which does not bear the veritas shield, should be discredited or discounted...
...faith in the aging prophet rebounded when he fielded Russert's question on the Second Amendment. Russert produced the text of the statute: "A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Given that the Amendment explicitly justifies the right to bear arms on the grounds that a citizen militia is essential to national security, Russert asked, doesn't that mean that the right is void now that we no longer require a militia? Heston simply said "no"--and he is right...
...Jefferson, for example, were explicit about their beliefs; Adams insisted that Congress not "prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms"). Even if Second Amendment revisionists were right in arguing that the militia was the sole justification for the right to bear arms, they would still have to accept the fundamental Constitutional basis of that right. The rationale concerning the militia is just that--a rationale. It does not alter or influence the legal right it justifies. Giving citizens the right to bear arms on the grounds that a militia is essential...
...vanquishes the human world champion? After all, it can already beat you. That in itself is suggestive and important, because no human being can play chess without thinking. And no human could beat the chess champion of the world, even in a single game, without bringing significant intelligence to bear. Shouldn't we conclude that Deep Blue must be a thinking computer, and a smart one at that, maybe brilliant? Maybe a genius? Aren't we forced to conclude that Deep Blue must have a mind? That henceforth Homo sapiens will be defined as "one type of thinking thing...
Godfrey Lowell Cabot Henderson '00, after whose great-great-grandfather, Godfrey Lowell Cabot, Cabot Library is named, calls being a legacy more of a "cross to bear" than a privilege...