Word: columning
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Just before the Spring vacation I received a piece of mail from the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies (and thus I presume from my colleague Prof. Nadav Safran) which contained an editorial-page column from The Wall Street Journal (March 12) defending Safran in his dispute with the Harvard administration over his C.I.A. ties. This mail saddened me very much. It saddened me because I had hoped my friend and colleague Prof. Safran would take the high-road rather than the low-road in the aftermath of his dispute...
...editorial-page column mailed by the Harvard Center for Middle Eastern Studies was called "Harvard's Point of Order," by Mark Helprin, identified as a novelist and political writer. I can only assume that Prof. Safran endorses the incredible argument offered by Mark Helprin which had three main points: 1) That Prof. Safran's ties to the C.I.A. violate nothing--neither the university's rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that...
Some Congressmen accuse Buchanan of trying to revive the Red-baiting of the McCarthy era with his remarks about the Democrats doing the Kremlin's work, among other canards. Indeed, President Reagan was said to be concerned about the harsh tone of Buchanan's newspaper column last week, and Chief of Staff Regan privately chided Buchanan for rushing his blast into print without first getting White House approval. Buchanan protests, "I'm not suggesting that anyone on the Hill is a Communist. But I do say that this is a choice between the freedom fighters and the Sandinistas." He adds...
...statue of Christopher Columbus, tall atop a rococo column in the spacious Madrid plaza, gazed off toward the New World as more than 750,000 Spaniards gathered in the square and streets and parks around it. Chanted the crowd: "NATO no! Bases...
Thank you, though, for all the unique insights you provided us with: your article on how the important people at The Crimson wrestled with the decision to run or not to run (February 26, front page--29 column inches); for the article telling us about how some women were applying to be photographed (March 5, front page--57-and-a-half column inches); for the story on how the photographer was now leaving campus (March 8, front page blurb--13 column inches); the entire opinion/editorial page devoted to the magazine and its recruitment (March 8--80 column inches...