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Offending feminists and conservatives alike, Paglia has defined her own political territory. She upholds the importance of the traditional Western Canon—and she has gone on the record as pro-pornography and pro-prostitution. During her time as a columnist on salon.com, she criticized a college date rape controversy as “creakingly passé, victim-centered, [and] anti-male.” She also defended Allan Ginsberg’s membership in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, and called Ginsberg “the apostle of a truly visionary sexuality...
...Wartofsky welcomed the opposition, viewing it as an opportunity for debate. “I think before, the lack of discussion indicated that people weren’t even thinking of the issue. Now people are thinking,” said Gould-Wartofsky, who is a former Crimson opinion columnist.-Staff writer Benjamin L. Weintraub can be reached at bweintr@fas.harvard.edu...
...loud, has been mostly alone. Writing in The New Criterion, William Logan, a poet and professor at the University of Florida, noted that “readers will be grateful to find the best of this raw material gathered by Alice Quinn.” David Orr, a poetry columnist for The New York Times Book Review, declared that “the publication…isn’t just a significant event in our poetry, it’s part of a continuing alteration in the scale of American life.” Born in Worcester, Mass., Bishop...
...Security in the Global Market Columnist Joe Klein's "It's Economic Security, Stupid" [March 13] hit the nail on the head. The U.S. response to the now defunct Dubai Ports deal was a global public-relations nightmare. Although I agree with Klein that a "drastically revised social safety net for American workers" would ease the collective American insecurities and provide a more rational and less emotional view of the growing global economy, I don't see that becoming a reality anytime soon. Universal health insurance and government-subsidized pensions smack of socialism and would inevitably draw protest, even from...
...Yair Lapid, a columnist from the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, sums up the elections: "The people do not want to continue to hold on to the [occupied] territories, it supports the next disengagement, and it isn?t willing to see its grandfather starve to death...