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...Faculty? JR: Well, I’ve received an enormous amount of support. Of course I do have colleagues who are quite close to me who are on the other side. One of the very nice things is how very nicely they treat me. Everybody has been very civil. There are no people going around the corridors shooting dirty looks at each other or anything. In fact, I teach in the same classroom right after one of the supporters of President Summers [Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse] and we get along very well. Obviously we will speak...
...months ago, 150 religious leaders gathered in the rotunda of the Capitol to pray for the failure of a budget bill that would cut $40 billion from education, health care, and child support for low-income families while giving tax cuts to the rich. The participants in this civil disobedience protest included Catholic bishops, Protestant ministers, rabbis, imams, and volunteers who work at faith-based charities—a diverse group, united by a conviction that this budget bill was against their deepest religious beliefs. The protestors knew that they would be arrested for blocking the entrance of the Capitol...
...stage a drawing so offensive cannot be printed without consequence. The response has been an atrocious display of violent and misdirected protest, as Muslims in Damascus and Beirut torched embassies and stormed the EU office in Gaza, heightening recurring fears about lawlessness in the region. Their only attempt at civil protest—the boycott of Arla Foods, the Danish-Swedish dairy giant—has been a conflation of all things Danish, as Arla takes the heat for the actions of an independent journal. In this regard, the fallout from the publication of the cartoons has been deplorable...
Four Republican critics of the act and some influential Democratic senators announced Thursday that they had worked out three changes to the current legislation that they said satisfied their civil liberties concerns...
This provision makes the right to challenge the gag order in court meaningless, national security policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union Timothy H. Edgar told The Crimson in December...