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...cites events such as Pub Nights and the failed Springfest Afterparty as proof that students are ready and waiting for a revolution. Furthermore, he sees University Hall’s support of these events as proof the administrators are afraid...
University President Lee Bollinger went as far as to say that “the entire Columbia community is injured when any of its members are made, unjustly to feel vulnerable.” One student even told the Columbia Spectator that the whole thing made her afraid to go to class. Yet, the contention that anyone was made to feel vulnerable when the perpetrators were so scared by what they had done that they immediately tried to cover it up is ridiculous...
...Saddam is not a lion anymore, so don't be afraid of him." SADDAM HUSSEIN, talking to courtroom guards during a recess at his trial last week...
...Meanwhile, Lin's family is keeping his bullet-scarred body on ice at home as evidence of police malfeasance. "We are afraid they will come and take the body and say that nothing happened," says Lin's girlfriend, who noted on Saturday that the village was still surrounded by security forces and that most residents were too scared to leave their homes. "Why are they treating us like enemies when all we want is justice...
...orders unannounced midnight abductions of suspected insurgents and tortures prisoners, sometimes to death. Your article should make all of us scream at our elected officials that Americans never condone torture in any form by anybody. Our government should do what its citizens want. I am afraid of what we would find if we opened up the can of worms that is the CIA. Richard Snider Cumberland, Maryland...