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...seems like January was open season on Harvard course-offerings, both past and present. In a piece titled. "Mea Culpa" in The New Republic's special issue dealing with race on campus, Richard Blow, a doctoral candidate in the History of American civilization at Harvard, joins the whining chorus of dissent against Harvard's allegedly illegitimate "PC" course offerings. Here, he lets loose on a course offered by Shakespeare-guru Marjorie Garber...
...visit my high school English teacher. Sitting in on one of his classes, I noticed that many of the students had pinned American flags to their knap-sacks. Directing my questions to the class as a whole, I asked whether students generally supported the war. Greeted by a chorus of yesses, I asked whether support was for the general aims of the war, or more specifically for the troops. They looked at me quizzically. "We support the whole thing," one girl explained. A boy in the back of the room yelled out, "Yeah! Kick...
SCHONBERG: CHORUS...
...smokers found themselves all but squeezed out of socially respectable circles. More restaurants quarantined smokers to tiny sections. Businesses ordered that cigarettes be left at home. Smoking was banned on virtually all domestic airline flights and on interstate buses. And the risks of secondhand fumes puffed the anti-smoking chorus to an implacable roar...
Such sentiments were buttressed by the testimony of a chorus of blue-ribbon experts, including seven former Defense Secretaries and two former Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who all counseled temperance. No witness was more compelling than the government's own William Webster, director of the CIA, who, to the amazement of many, departed from the Administration's line when he projected that the embargoes would begin to bog down Saddam's military in three to nine months...