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Bravo to Tal Ben-Shachar for his November 29 editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom." It takes boldness and imagination to simultaneously mourn the assassination of Rabin, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the election of Hitler to power while at the same time writing that "Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech." Such a statement sounds suspiciously like the philosophy of a Hitler or a Stalin--the very kind of people Ben-Shachar seeks to ban in his free society...
...Ben-Shachar appears to be living in a universe where criticism, rhetoric and fiery distribes are directly linked with shootings, bombings and mass exterminations. The inhabitants of this universe are evidently unthinking, childlike automatons who blindly follow the loudest madman they can find. It is a universe of two-year-olds, where words are direct and magical forces that immediately cause actions...
...good start to the season," senior Crimson editor and defending national individual champion Tal Ben-Shachar said. "Everyone played tough. We were extremely resilient...
Harvard's dominance is typified by its top three players: Ben-Shachar, sophomore Daniel Ezra and second-semester sophomore Kirsch. Ezra actually played in the top spot against Brown, while Ben Shachar who beat Ezra to win last year's individual national championship--played in the No. 2 slot. The order of the spots is determined by intra-team challenge matches...
...three will probably switch around (spots) a lot this year," Ben-Shachar said. "The whole team will probably switch around. We have a lot of depth. We've gotten a lot stronger. We only lost Mike Maslan, who played five or six, and we gained a potential number one (Kirsch...