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Asked about Lott's criticism, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen, himself a former Republican senator, said" said: "I am prepared to place 30 years of public service on the line to say the only factor that was important in this decision was what was in the American people's best interests...
...much about our dreams and fears as it does about Scripture. Eugene Rivers, a Pentecostal minister in Boston's poor Dorchester neighborhood, has depicted Moses as an African revolutionary (Egypt is in Africa, after all) to teach gang members about throwing off the yoke of slavery to drugs. Norman Cohen, provost of New York City's Hebrew Union College, used the prophet's speech defect to come to terms with his own temporary paralysis. Moses is a universal symbol of liberation, law and leadership, sculpted by Michelangelo, painted by Rembrandt, eulogized by Elie Wiesel as "the most solitary and most...
...incident at Meribah begins with the stark announcement, "Miriam died there and was buried there." The next sentence is, "The community was without water, and they joined against Moses and Aaron." This abrupt shift has fascinated scholars, including Hebrew Union College's Cohen. "His need is mourning," Cohen points out. "And do the people gather to comfort him? No. To complain. The same song and dance." Distraught, Moses strikes. With the blows, "he takes out everything," says Cohen. "He takes it out on the people, maybe on God, because he's lost his sister." And the Lord punishes...
Samuel C. Cohen '00, current vice president of the council, supported endorsements, but said ethnic groups should not base their endorsements solely on a candidate's ethnicity...
Speakers from outside Harvard include Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin '60, Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen, Vice Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Joseph W. Ralston and Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley...