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...What Veils Reveal Congratulations to columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown for arguing against the face veil worn by some Muslim women [Oct. 16]. The veil certainly represents the suppression of women. It is apparently worn because some Muslim men are so lacking in self-control that a mere glimpse of female flesh would drive them into a sexual frenzy. Since even animals do not behave that badly, I suggest that such men be put in cages in a zoo and the women be given their freedom and a little up-to-date education. After all, this is Britain in the 21st...
...protesters. Several of the latter mentioned Bradley Roland Will, an activist-journalist from New York who was killed in Oaxaca last month as he sought to film clashes between demonstrators and pro-government groups. Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky ’07, a Crimson editorial editor and former opinion columnist who carried a cross with Will’s name written on it, said that he and his fellow protesters demanded “immediate withdrawal of the Mexican army and the paramilitaries from Oaxaca.” The country’s president, Vicente Fox, has sent federal police...
...Ruben Navarrette Jr. is a nationally syndicated columnist and a member of the editorial board of the San Diego Union-Tribune. Read his column at http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/navarrette/index.html
...flyers seem so harmless, they are in fact doing grave damage to the environment. Yes, as a conservative, I had to swear an oath on a Bible printed on the skin of silver-backed gorillas and inked with the blood of several dozen baby sea otters, but a good columnist knows his audience, and many of you think “environmental issues” are important. Think for a second then, Harvard: How many hundreds of trees are ruthlessly pulped in order to print flyers whose sole purpose is to make the roughly thirty foot trip from the paved...
...song was the titular track on Springsteen’s 1984 album “Born in the U.S.A.,” released to mass commercial and critical appeal in the midst of the 1984 Mondale-Reagan presidential campaign. In the wake of this success, conservative columnist George Will wrote a column entitled “Yankee Doodle Springsteen,” praising the positive attitude of a song where “problems always [seem] punctuated by a grand, cheerful affirmation: ‘Born in the U.S.A.!’” Apparently the Reagan-era deficits...