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Old North Church, Boston, October 29, 2003 |
April 27, 2004
The award-winning musical Jerry Springer - The Opera
is set to open on Broadway next year, reports
BBC
News.
"Princeton University's faculty approved a plan yesterday to combat rising grades by limiting the number of A's it awards to undergraduates. * * * "Under the guidelines, which go into effect in the fall for Princeton's 4,600 undergraduates, faculty are expected to restrict the number of A's to 35 percent in undergraduate courses; for junior and senior independent work, the percentage receiving A's will be capped at 55 percent." --from an Associated Press article in the Boston Globe.
"A Harvard College education should include more
science, more personal contact with professors, and some time spent
outside the United States, according to the committees charged with
overhauling Harvard’s undergraduate curriculum for the first time in a
quarter century.
"The report, a year in the making and released to Harvard’s faculty yesterday, also recommends that Harvard scrap its required ‘‘core curriculum,’’ the set of lecture classes devised in 1978 to ensure students were acquainted with the intellectual approaches of many academic disciplines. The core curriculum would be replaced with a more flexible system of requirements that more closely resembles those at other colleges." --from an article by Marcella Bombardieri in the Boston Globe. See also a related article in the Harvard Crimson.
"Weight training can help women lose weight and keep it off, and can also help older men and women strengthen their immune systems, according to two research papers presented last week at the Experimental Biology 2004 meeting in Washington," says a Reuters report in the Boston Globe.
"It's never been important
whether Diana Krall deserved to be classified as a jazz singer. The
greater question has always been how to listen to her music without
slipping into a boredom-induced coma," wrote Renee Graham in the Boston
Globe.
April 25, 2004 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts will prohibit gay couples who live outside of Massachusetts from marrying there when gay marriage becomes legal next month, a senior aide to Governor W. Mitt Romney said yesterday, according to the front page of today's Boston Globe. Won't the effect of that policy be to encourage more gay people to take up residence in Massachusetts? Is that Romney's intent? When Dukakis was governor, his favorite word seemed to be "coalition." Romney's seems to be "confusion."
April 13, 2004 According to an article by Scott Allen in the Boston Globe, the studies of Dr. Michael F. Holick, a professor at the medical school of Boston University, "indicate that a few minutes of sun exposure to bare skin several times a week can help reduce a widespread vitamin D deficiency in northern cities, where people are indoors or bundles up for large portions of the year. During the summer in Boston, he calculates, a fair-skinned person would generate enough vitamin D from spending 5 to 10 minutes in the midday sun three times a week. "But Holick said dermatologists consistently reject his advice. 'It's easier for them to say just don't be exposed to sunlight instead of providing the thoughtful, intelligent recommendation that maybe a little sun is good for you,' he said."
Dr. Holick's book The UV Advantage, about the health benefits of sun exposure and tanning, is scheduled for release in the United States on May 1, 2004, and can be ordered from amazon.com.
April 9, 2004 According to Fortune magazine of April 19, 2004, "The Apprentice is the season's No. 1 new [television] series among adults ages 18 to 49, with 12.2 million viewers." "Median viewer income is $66,495, the highest for a prime-time series on broadcast television."
April 2, 2004 In an article in the Boston Globe about Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney's continuing opposition to same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, Scott S. Greenberger and Raphael Lewis wrote: "Lawmakers and activists on both sides of the issue suggest that Romney may be weighing several options, including an executive order to block the issuance of licenses to gay couples; proposing a law to prevent issuance of those licenses; or backing another bill, being pushed this week, that would abolish marriage entirely and create civil unions for heterosexual couples, as well as gay couples." If he isn't willing to uphold the Constitution of Massachusetts, then I believe that he should resign rather than engage in absurd machinations that could harm the lives of thousands of people for his own selfish reasons, whatever they may be.
March 15, 2004
"If society has abandoned
regulating heterosexual conduct of men and women, what right does it have
to regulate homosexual conduct, including the regulation of their legal
and property relationship with one another to mirror exactly that of
hetero, married couples? "I believe that this state of affairs is contrary to the will of God.
But traditionalists, especially Christian traditionalists (in whose ranks
I include myself) need to get a clue about what has really been going on
and face the fact that same-sex marriage, if it comes about, will not
cause the degeneration of the institution of marriage; it is the
result of it." --from an article by the Rev. Donald Sensing, pastor of the Trinity
United Methodist Church in Franklin, Tennessee, at
opinionjournal.com.
February 16, 2004 The Boston Museum of Fine Arts stands to make money from renting paintings of Monet to a casino hotel in Las Vegas, reports guardian.co.uk. February 5, 2004 With my limited knowledge of the program that I am using for this page, I don't know how to enable comments. But I have put some of this material on a page that does allow comments, http://www.johnrpierce.info/weblog/
February 2, 2004 I took the multiple-choice quiz at presidentmatch.com to see which presidential candidates agree with my positions on the issues. The results were: Kerry: 100% Kucinich: 99% Clark: 93% Lieberman: 90% Dean: 89% Edwards: 89% Sharpton: 81% Bush: 41%
January 21, 2004 Well, there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But there were "mass destruction-related program activities," said President Bush in his State of the Union address last night. --- "Our nation must defend the sanctity of marriage," said President Bush. In a society that allows no-fault divorce, the sanctity of marriage has already been lost. Marriage as it exists in the United States today is not marriage as defined by the moral tradition of Christianity. The majority of the population wish to be free to do as they please, to divorce and remarry at will, to abort fetuses for reasons of convenience, etc., without regard to Christian moral tradition. But some are willing to invoke that tradition to require that an unpopular minority conduct their lives in accordance with that tradition. --- I did not hear any mention of the sanctity of the life of the unborn in the President's address last night. Apparently he and many Republicans would like to forget certain aspects of the Christian moral tradition that won't appeal to enough voters. But the government will give money to some faith-based programs, even if they have crosses on the wall. If certain clergy are getting a little money from the government for their "programs," will they be happy to keep quiet about the immorality of abortion and focus their attention on the issue du jour, gay marriage, that affects far fewer of their followers? --- "Activist judges . . . have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for the will of the people and their elected representatives. On an issue of such great consequence, the people's voice must be heard," said the President. What about presidential elections? Are they issues of great consequence? Should the people's voice be heard, or may elections be decided by the justices of the Supreme Court?
Archbishop K. G. Hammar of the Church of
Sweden has said that gay couples should be allowed to get married in
church, says a Reuters report in the Boston Metro.
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