Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty for lying to the FBI, a federal jury ruled yesterday. Now begins what will surely be an emotional and contentious debate over the degree to which Moussaoui's actions allowed the events of Sept. 11 to happen.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled yesterday that same-sex couples who are nonresidents cannot get married in Massachusetts unless gay marriage is permitted in their home states.
When students choose to matriculate at Tufts, they sign up to join an academic community, not to sign away their freedoms.
Debates over the "rights of man" and other such philosophical discussions have always been a part of the quintessential French existence, from the inception of modern France in 1789 to this very day.
Opportunity doesn't have a specific location. It's that changeable place where chance lines up circumstances and means. You can't call 411 and ask for the address of Opportunity (and certainly not the phone number).
As two Democratic Senators return from a week-long trip in China, they remain disturbingly un-averse to draconian trade legislation. Despite having met with many high-level officials concerning a revaluation of China's currency, the renminbi, Senators Charles Schumer and Lindsey Graham have not yet decided if they will force a vote this Friday.
Twelve intellectuals, calling themselves the "Group of Twelve," have drafted and signed a strongly-worded document, "The Manifesto of Twelve," calling for ideological resistance to Islamic fundamentalism. Published in the Jyllands-Posten, the Danish newspaper that first published the controversial Mohammad cartoons, the document criticizes paranoia about "Islamophobia" and encourages worldwide promotion of secular values and freedom.
A rose by any other name is still a rose, and the same goes for economic protectionism. The current trend in world political economics has been a move towards more mercantilist policy, justified by thinly veiled excuses of national security or domestic interest.
"Gonorrhea": a word many of us probably haven't heard since ninth grade, and chances are haven't given a second thought since. But that vague disease, up there with chlamydia and syphilis in the pantheon of mythical ailments that everyone knows about but no one ever seems to have, is suddenly a harsh reality to at least a few Tufts students.
"Our responsibility to the children comes first." Those words, spoken recently by Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney with regard to same-sex adoptions, might be the most dubious yet in his long career in politics. For if Romney's true concern is for the parentless children, why is he seeking to allow one of Massachusetts' largest adoption agencies, Boston Archdiocese's Catholic Charities, to bar same-sex couples from its adoption services?
One of the most important aspects of globalization is the ability to access and deliver information instantaneously around the world.
Recently, the Bush Administration appointed a commission to consider implementing standardized testing in colleges and universities across the nation. Proponents of the system say that implementing standardized testing in colleges will enable informed comparison among schools.
Can a university discriminate against a discriminatory recruiter? Not if that recruiter is Uncle Sam.
The development of e-mail was one of the most fundamental shifts in communication since the telephone. The ability to quickly send concise messages from any computer draws people closer. However, all sorts of communications - business, academic, personal, even commercial messages - flood inboxes everywhere.
The controversial cartoons depicting the Muslim prophet Mohammed, which were originally published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and have been the object of global protest, were re-printed in Wednesday's issue of the Primary Source under the heading: "The SOURCE must stand in solidarity with the free press of the world, and print these cartoons as a symbol of defiance against oppression and fear."
Playing a word association game with Tufts students, the most common response to the trigger "money" would likely be "not enough."
After a string of car break-ins last week, as well as the Brown & Brew burglary and robberies behind Curtis Hall that occurred earlier this semester, many students might be wondering whether they are still enrolled in the same school.
It is only slightly ironic that as Europe proceeds on its own path towards opening up energy markets, the man who spearheaded the initiative in the United States, former Enron CEO Ken Lay, is sitting on trial.
Lawrence Summers has been a lightning rod for controversy his entire career. Since his time as treasury secretary of the World Bank, and currently finishing his recently resigned position as Harvard University's president, Summers has managed to be more divisive than uniting.
Have no fear - all right, have a little. Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship (EPIIC), the Institute for Global Leadership's signature program, presents its annual symposium beginning tomorrow night.
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