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...column which began in the 1950s making anonymous student caricatures of the Law School's professors, students and administrators in order to comment on HLS's social norms--said that government programs "only help colored folk and pointy-headed Jews, but God helps those who help themselves." We affirm the right of the Record to have a Fenno, and we believe that Fenno serves an important purpose in the competitive atmosphere of HLS. However, the content of Fenno's remarks was highly inappropriate and undermines the very purpose of open discourse that Fenno is supposed to uphold...
Although we again affirm the thought behind a Fenno, we are highly disappointed in the content of Fenno's writing and in the editorial staff of the Record that allowed such destructive and racist comments to flow freely in its pages. We encourage the Record to be more responsible in its selection of the individual whom it designates as a social critic and for whom it provides a public forum. Any free speech, especially with the latitude of anonymity, needs to be wielded responsibly. Both the human hand that holds Fenno's pen and the editorial board that oversees...
...groups. More importantly, it will end a long alliance between blacks and Jews (such as that forged by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and more recently by Michael Lerner and Cornel West), an alliance which has as its greatest strength a shared sense of struggle to affirm that which is most deeply human about us all. It would be a truly sad situation if, years from now, in the histories of American blacks and Jews, it was recorded that Gavin Cato, Yankel Rosenbaum and the unique coalition between blacks and Jews all died in the last decade...
...Moscow has kept irredentist impulses largely in check. Shortly after the breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Boris Yeltsin made a historic decision to affirm the borders of the old Soviet republics as new international ones. He has at several key moments repudiated the bellicose claims of his noisier opponents. Yet plenty of questions--and among Russia's neighbors, plenty of anxieties--persist about how Moscow will handle its relations with the other 11 members of the Commonwealth of Independent States. If it develops as a genuine commonwealth of genuinely independent states, it will have the support...
...quite a refreshing change from the recent attacks on Clinton's character, for never have I heard anyone try to defend the president as "sincere." And for good reason. Just to check that I had understood this seemingly incoherent thought, I consulted my Webster's dictionary only to affirm my initial confusion. Sincere--"utterly honest and genuine." If Bill Clinton is "utterly honest and genuine," then his "politicking" truly has brainwashed America...