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...Regardless of its religious past, Slade feels the fraternity’s modern justification for the clause is misguided. According to Slade, the fraternity now claims it is not trying to force all members to be Christian. Instead, it insists that by believing in a higher power, members will develop a strong set of values. Slade disagrees. “People can share values while having a wide range of religious beliefs and interests,” he says. Slade says he is skeptical of the fraternity’s claim that it was only attempting to foster integrity...
...embarrassing open secret that, contrary to his hallowed position in the secular sainthood of freedom, Abraham Lincoln was never a particularly passionate abolitionist. But he freed the slaves, and regardless of his real reasons for signing the Emancipation Proclamation, aren’t we glad he did? Likewise, many scholars maintain that knowledge of Hitler’s escalating program of genocide in Europe had very little to do with Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s decision to enter World War II on that continent. Do we care in the slightest that he might have been more concerned with getting...
...should not "go it alone." Well, the U.S. alone was attacked on Sept. 11. And it is likely that the U.S. alone would be the target in the next such attack, conceivably with weapons of mass destruction. A President and Congress's first obligation is to protect America, regardless of how many abroad approve. Yet many will--starting with the Iraqi people, who will soon be dancing in the streets of Baghdad like those liberated in Kabul. Beyond obvious allies such as Britain and Kuwait, other nations will join with us as Bush's resolve grows clear...
...Bersani says, all cooking appliances, regardless of whether they are energy-efficient or affixed to the top of a refrigerator, are forbidden in dormitories by the state sanitary code. “A microwave is considered a cooking appliance and, therefore, they are not allowed regardless of the brand,” he writes in an e-mail...
...still unclear as of press time whether the Cambridge Fire Code has much to say about cooking appliances in dorm rooms at all. But regardless, the fire department is not breathing down Harvard’s neck about...