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...humor’s right to free speech should not be protected but that news or some purely informational medium should enjoy that special protection is an unnecessary and specious privileging of one form of expression over another. Rights are indiscriminate and should not be subject to the weak claim that the work of a Pryor, Carlin, Wilde, or Maher is a lower form of speech than journalism. Much like other types of expression, there is valuable humor and humor that is less so—but all of it deserves to be protected...
Oscomp Systems, which plans to commercialize a natural gas compressor that they claim will revolutionize the energy market, won in the competition’s Business Venture Track...
...Harvard hesitates to say explicitly that such a common bond unites us. Undergraduates’ latest institutionally-sanctioned educational philosophy comes from the Report of the Task Force on General Education. The task force’s framing of its new set of requirements fall well short of a claim to excellence. “The general education curriculum,” the authors admonish, “does not pretend to constitute a comprehensive guide to everything that an educated person should know. There is simply too much information to cover...
Molinari is the fifth child in his family to stake his claim on the college lacrosse field. His sister, Morgan ’06, and brothers Shane ‘08, Cullen ’09, and Terrence ’10, have played at Notre Dame, UMass, Georgetown, and Duke, respectively. Madison, the youngest of the bunch, is now a freshman in high school playing on her high school varsity lacrosse team...
Recently, Tea Party protestors swarmed Boston Common. But even before that they had laid claim to Boston and more so, to the Republican Party. Their turnout arguably contributed to Scott Brown’s election to the senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, and although many Tea Party-supported Republican candidates have failed, most of the “Tea Party patriots” are staunch Republicans. However, the Republican Party would do well to steer clear of this extreme, disordered group...