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Your useful Election 2000 guide (News, Nov. 6) has one glaring error--Bush is not "pro-life." While he does wish to criminalize abortion, he is also an enthusiastic supporter of the death penalty. Gore opposes Bush on abortions but agrees with him on the death penalty, though perhaps with more reservations...
...America's abominable attitudes toward minorities in the past, we have developed a hyper-conscious concern about ethnicity and race that is now ingrained in our morals. In much the same way, we have learned to extend the same open-minded compassion to various religious groups on campus. And though lagging significantly behind in terms of acceptance, sexual orientation is at least part of an open and honest discussion at Harvard...
Wealth, in contrast, is most certainly not--even though Harvard students' diversity of experience and opinion is due to our broad range of financial privilege at least as much as to racial or religious diversity. No one talks about our economic diversity, however, because discussing it makes us terribly ill at ease. Why does it make us so uncomfortable to talk about our differences in wealth and class status? Could it be that the rich at Harvard finally feel guilty about their advantages and privileges in ways that they have never before been forced to consider? Or that the penniless...
Historically, exit polls have been accurate predictors of election outcomes, though some political scientists believe that as many as four precincts in ten may provide a false picture of the electorate...
...defending its data, though spokespersons have said that they will look into the source of the errors...