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Three days of angry letters to the editor and accusations of censorship later, the department had a change of heart and re-invited Paulin. Why? As Marquand Professor of English Peter Sacks told The Boston Globe, “Free speech was a principle that needed upholding here. This was a clear affirmation that the department stood strongly by the First Amendment...
...With all due respect, what you stated is extraordinarily abstract,’’ Dershowitz said according to the Boston Globe, which first reported the meeting. “That’s like asking someone to first vote for censorship, and then figure out later what is censored...
...censorship of Tom Paulin is an outrage. Paulin is internationally recognized as a leading poet and scholar, and silencing him undermines the spirit of free debate on which Harvard University is based. The English department should not have allowed itself to be bullied by special interests or President Summers, and students should revel in the debate sparked by controversial figures coming to speak on campus...
...initial reaction to the first protests was that rescinding the invitation might compound the problem by incurring counter-charges of censorship,” he wrote...
...presidency of Russia in 2000 on a promise to restore Moscow's grip on the rebellious republic of Chechnya. For the past two years, he regularly claimed victory was all but won. As the champion of order and stability, Putin enjoyed strong public standing, while the government's harsh censorship of news from the war zone nearly a thousand miles from the capital has kept the grim realities of the stalemated conflict off the front pages and out of the minds of ordinary Russians. Now the brazen takeover of a theater just three miles from the Kremlin has brought...