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...tyrannical intolerance on the part of some of its members. Free speech or free discussion in the university is in no sense a peripheral or secondary matter. The university is neither a church nor a political party, and those who would turn it into one simply do not belong here. Freedom of speech and discussion is the core of the university, and those who knowingly attack it commit an offense more serious than pyromania or even plagiarism. The only reasonable penalty is separation from the university. It is utterly ridiculous that members of the Harvard community who have willfully violated...
...armed patrols, covert neighborhood surveillance, "tax donations" and more than a little intimidation. N.P.A. members who have failed to present identification quickly at Alsa Masa checkpoints have been shot on the spot. Calida insists that Alsa Masa is law-abiding. He says he gives guns only to those who belong to the Civilian Home Defense Force...
Nevertheless, at least a third of the 527 members meeting in Washington (the proportion needed to bar an election) seem to have been swayed by Lang's underlying argument that social scientists, however eminent, may not belong to the NAS and perhaps should form an academy of their own. Says one physical scientist: "It's not enough to be excellent. One has to meet the norms of science as well." But that view leaves wide open the question of who, inside the NAS or out, ought to define those norms...
...Church of Religious Consciousness is easy to belong to. Instead of disallowing things that people enjoy--like ham and cheese sandwiches or BLTs (Judaism), hamburgers on Friday (Catholicism), or meat (Hindu)--the Church will disallow things that nobody like to eat anyway. Spinach, liver, tongue, brussel sprouts, and broccoli-cheese pasta are all on the list of foods that you are forbidden from eating as a member of the Church...
...Activist Priest Jerzy Popieluszko in 1984. "This death should not go unanswered," writes Walesa. "But our response will be a coolly reasoned one, imposed on us by our conditions and the peaceful means that we have chosen." Yet his overall tone is optimistic. "Sometimes I feel that I already belong to a period of the kind incarnated in our national anthem, Poland Is Not Dead...