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...applaud the response of the Kirkland House masters and feel that this man should not be used as a scapegoat. There are alarmingly many Harvard students who need to learn that the word "gay" is offensive when you use it to mean you don't like your teaching fellow...
...There can never be an absolute way of determining whether the press's right to the truth has priority over a citizen's right to privacy. In the case of rape, it may be that the traditional policy of reticence, even if quaintly motivated, still makes sense. Many women applaud Ziegenmeyer's courage. Not every rape victim can be expected to possess...
...port city -- specifically, Saigon. Between 20,000 and 50,000 Vietnamese flock each weekend to 800 shops and restaurants, buying herbal medicine and dining out on snail-tomato-rice-noodle soup. In the mornings people may attend Buddhist ceremonies in makeshift temples; in the evenings they can applaud Elvis Phuong, who, complete with skintight pants and sneer, does Presley Vietnamese-style...
...Kingfisher was an outstanding debut -- mature, allusive verse that assumed a reader who had traveled and read a bit. In a climate of minimalists and confessional poets, it was a nourishing refreshment, and it won a well-deserved National Book Award (back when that group saw fit to applaud poetry...
Bush will reaffirm U.S. commitments to a consensual approach to fighting the drug lords. He will applaud Colombia's six-month-old crackdown against the drug barons. He will offer reassurances that except for the soldiers stationed at the U.S. Southern Command in Panama, there will be no American troops left in the region after the U.S. completes the withdrawal of its invasion force from Panama, perhaps by the end of this month. Bush hopes that once those assurances are given, Barco will agree to the deployment of the antismuggling naval task force and the installation of a U.S.-built...