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There are those who have said that Commencement morning is an inappropriate time for controversy??especially for the word “jihad,” which has become so painful to some of us after its distortion last fall. I cannot agree; we have spent four years at Harvard, and the best thing that Harvard has taught me is to engage the issue. If we do not argue with some substance, if we do not take the time to consider, to listen, to open our minds in new ways, to test our assumptions and others...
There are those who have said that Commencement morning is an inappropriate time for controversy??especially for the word “jihad,” which has become so painful to some of us after its distortion last fall. I cannot agree; we have spent four years at Harvard, and the best thing that Harvard has taught me is to engage the issue. If we do not argue with some substance, if we do not take the time to consider, to listen, to open our minds in new ways, to test our assumptions and others...
...Gould’s success did not come without criticism that he let popular work overshadow his scholarly contributions. In an April 26 review of Structure of Evolutionary Theory in Science, SUNY-Stonybrook Professor Douglas J. Futuyma described Gould “as an object of professional controversy?? and wrote, “It has been 25 years since his first and, until now, only book directed at his peers...
...been branded racists and supremacists. Many critics have denounced the concept of a Jewish state as morally indefensible; others have maintained the Jews have a right to a homeland but no right to defend themselves. Opposition has raised serious questions concerning the role of anti-Semitism in shaping the controversy??creating a chicken-or-the-egg scenario: is anti-Semitism on the rise due to the Israeli campaign, or is opposition to the campaign due to anti-Semitism...
Over the course of the semester, the council—rarely locked in debate or controversy??issued more reports on student issues than any previous council. In October, the group came close to a formal debate over the presence of the Reserve Officers Training Corps’ (ROTC) presence on campus, but Gusmorino quashed any possibility that a bill would be written for a floor debate, saying that the time spent on debate would likely be contentious and meaningless...