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...next with LaRochelle Young, a policy adviser for Kansas Republican Senator Sam Brownback. Knowing the Senator's antiabortion views, I told the aide that kids who go to after-school programs don't get abortions. Her eyes lit up, and she asked me for statistics. "One hundred percent," I said. This didn't seem like the right answer. So I tried 78%. She looked up from the pad she was writing on. "Whatever sounds good," I said. She stopped writing...
Casey added that Harvard is not as interested in the $500 million designated for capital projects—95 percent of which is already locked down in the House bill—but on the $250 million in research grants for which the University’s researchers could be eligible. The remaining $250 million is for tax-breaks geared toward industry...
...class should be not only about learning the material, but also learning from your mistakes. The end result should not be a mysterious grade, but a body of feedback that teaches you but also prepares you for future, more difficult work. Since in many classes 80 or 90 percent of your grade is determined during reading period and finals, the lack of feedback on the last work of the semester is particularly egregious. Never knowing why you got the grade you did, what you did well, and what you should have done better is not only unfair but also damaging...
...hope courts will agree it is unconstitutional. But in all likelihood, last week’s decision in California will be overturned at the ballot box come fall, since the prevailing sentiments among voters is still one of opposition to the practice. A recent Gallup Poll found that 56 percent of Americans oppose legalizing gay marriage, a statistic that has stayed fairly constant for the last several years. For proponents of same-sex marriage, the debate has become so wrapped up in the question of whether or not same-sex marriage can be justified by the Constitution that most engaged...
...Proposition 22, a state referendum from 2000 that passed with over 60 percent of the vote, voters chose to define marriage as between a man and a woman. Whether or not one agrees with that definition, the court cannot and should not strike it down without a legitimate reason. The role of the judicial branch in protecting minorities extends only to assuring that their constitutional rights are not violated...