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...poisoned debate in national politics is nothing new. During the last four years, politicians on both sides of the aisle have exchanged vitriolic and largely baseless insults. Two of the most egregious involved Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) comparing George W. Bush to Adolf Hitler on the floor of the Senate, and Congresswoman Jean Schmidt (D-Ohio) calling Congressman John Murtha (R-Penn.), a decorated former Marine, a coward...
...University President Lawrence H. Summers essentially declared supporters of divestment from Israel to be anti-Semitic. The criticism stifled legitimate debate and it was still dampening discussion a year later, when I arrived at Harvard. Summers himself was also the victim of baseless accusations. Protestors outside a faculty meeting in 2005 accused Summers of being racist and anti-gay. My freshman spring, I watched Lecturer Brian C.W. Palmer ’86 and a few students in his class, Religion 1529, “Personal Choice and Global Transformation,” berate Summers, the invited guest speaker, for supposedly...
Madonna has invaded Hong Kong. The pop megastar's likeness adorned most of the city's billboards this spring, her music was piped through its subway stations, and baseless rumors had crowds lining up for nearly a mile down Queen's Road to catch a glimpse of the Material Girl in person...
Finkelstein alleges that Dershowitz is trying to discredit him with baseless claims to draw attention away from strong criticisms that Finkelstein has leveled against Dershowitz’s work on the Israel-Palestine conflict...
...friend who had accompanied Noorzai to the meetings interjected, "You should tell them whatever you know. They want to know how much you know. Do you understand?" Noorzai replied, "I am telling them as much as I know, but I'm not going to say something baseless." The Americans then asked what he knew about al-Qaeda's high command. The answers were not illuminating. Bin Laden? Noorzai admitted to "seeing" him only once, in Kandahar in the late 1990s. What about 9/11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed? Or Abu Zubaydah, al-Qaeda's chief of military operations? "I'm telling...