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...Democrats—particularly young ones—need to embrace this mantle, and embrace it fully, both following its precepts and arguing for them. As Dewey wrote in “The Public and Its Problems,” “Thinking and beliefs should be experimental, not absolutistic.” The basis for social policy then becomes not a matter of sound-byte ideals, but a matter of establishing concrete correlations of cause and effect that depend on the particular and complicated history of each problem...
...Nowak says. “If we only emphasize the significance of art in certain cultures, we perpetuate racism.” Whatever its intentions, the museum system as it exists has indeed been responsible for the exclusion of numerous collections of ethnic art. If the problem is not rectified in light of the new Quincy Street museum, Harvard is complicit in the neglect of art that is viable, interesting, and worthy of public viewing...
...first female final club to come into property; just a block or two down Mt. Auburn Street, the Bee Club continues to lease a house from the nearby Fly Club. This business agreement marks a positive step for Harvard’s social scene. A major problem that has long plagued weekend nights at Harvard is the gendered nature of available social space. All of the eight male final clubs own property, whereas the two female clubs have only recently come into such possession (and even then, it is of limited use). Since the males’ Mt. Auburn mansions...
...Early voting could also be a problem for Obama. Up to half of the four million likely California Democratic voters are expected to vote before primary day, as more than a million already have done, and many of those have doubtless cast their votes before Obama gained new momentum after winning in South Carolina. No wonder that the Clinton campaign, trying to take advantage of her name recognition, has focused its efforts on early voting. And it worked: Back at the Chavez Center in Long Beach, many of the elderly Latinas, including Salazar, have already voted for Clinton by mailing...
...personal leadership in this crisis; I'm not quite sure who around him is making the decisions," says Richard Leakey, the world famous paleontologist and chairman of WildlifeDirect.org, who is active in Kenyan politics as an anti-corruption campaigner. "I think that's a large part of the problem - the country feels at sea without a captain. But ODM has made some pretty outrageous statements too. Everybody is playing bad guy on this and nobody is trying to play good...