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...Jewish woman, I have no desire to be the target of bigoted epithets. But I also know that dictatorship begins not with name-calling, but consent to the official suppression of the name-callers. They may think I am as offensive and irrational as I think them. This, nevertheless, does not give the university the right to step in and decide which of us is right. Brown's overzealous administration needs to realize that a community that protects freedom of speech cannot be founded on coercion...
...only requirements seniors must fulfill in order to take an honors hourly are that the class lie within the field of concentration and that students obtain the course instructors' consent. Not all professors offer the option of senior honors hourlies...
However, Cambridge Conservation Commission Director Elizabeth Epstein, the city's official spokesperson on the committee, was less optimistic, saying that "the city's position has not changed one iota" from its initial opposition to Scheme Z. She said she would be hard-pressed to consent to the River Crossing or any like variant and added that she has "good reason to believe that there are better alternatives...
Still, I brood about whether I am prepared for the horrors of what will come next, either the carnage of a ground war or the full revelation of civilian casualties within Iraq and Kuwait. Despite my informed consent as a citizen, a wave of queasiness hit me with the first air strikes against Baghdad. But then the euphoric opening days of the war made it seem as if America had perfected the neutron bomb in reverse: high-tech weaponry that only destroyed buildings, while leaving people miraculously unharmed. Even now, after more than a week of war, the cameras have...
...worth noting that the only two governments in recent memory that might, indeed, have asked their poets for a war poem at such a time--namely, Salvadore Allende's Chile and Daniel Ortega's Nicaragua--were brought down by the government that is now, with the consent of Congress, asking men, women and children to die in the Persian Gulf...