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...what?" Should we have cheered spiritedly for our peppy student government? Should we have celebrated what a difference the Gala Ball has made in our lives? Should we have praised Harvard's new mascot, who looks like he just stepped out of the Trojan Horse? Should we have thrown a wild, week-long coronation of the council's new president, Robert M. Hyman...
...must make difficult value judgements about which moral beliefs to impose in a particular case. In crafting our laws, we must throw away our irrational fear of arguments based on religion and morality. The wisdom that they have to offer us is too valuable to be thrown away...
Although only about 30 students (including nine committee members) attended the meeting, those who did participated in thoughtful and measured debate, ranging from complaints about the language requirement to recommendations for distributional requirements. Ideas were thrown up in the air, caught and tossed around before settling to rest--a nice interplay of thoughts that one doesn't often see at the College on a large scale...
...They travelled ten or twenty miles to the nearby town of Potocari. There, away from the prying eyes of international aid workers, they were taken out into the fields like herds of cattle, blindfolded, and systematically machine-gunned. Tractors stood by to dig mass graves where the bodies were thrown in, some while they were still alive...
...still harbored lingering doubts about the Hubble's power to do groundbreaking science, the new photograph should put those doubts to rest. Without the Hubble this discovery would not have been possible--and neither would a score of others spanning virtually every branch of astronomy. The telescope has already thrown Big Bang theorists a curve by suggesting that some stars in the universe are older than the universe itself. At the core of one galaxy it has found a black hole as massive as 3 billion suns. It has made scientists front-row spectators at the collision of comet Shoemaker...