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...Cadets don’t see Harvard as a place where they are embraced for their courage and their dedication to our national safety; they see a place that shows them off when convenient, and respects their right to serve our nation while simultaneously holding them in contempt as scabs in the University’s strike against discrimination. On the other side, opponents of “don’t ask, don’t tell” see a weak attempt to push the problem of ROTC down the river...
...fight more than just a bad diagnosis made decades ago. They were up against a Zionist ideology that saw Holocaust victims as weaklings who had gone "like sheep to the slaughter" - unlike the strong "new Jew" Israel's founders hoped to create. Holocaust survivors were treated with contempt in their new country. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion struck a reparations deal with West Germany in 1953 for DM 3 billion, then worth around $700 million. Israel agreed to give the money to survivors already in Israel; Germany would pay for those who arrived in the Jewish state after the deal...
...usual round of suspects, but on the black middle class, which he condemns for being “paid off” and castigates for their “conspicuous consumption and hedonistic indulgence.” Is there a slight contradiction between West’s prophetic contempt for material gain and his exquisitely tailored suits, comfortably tenured lifestyle, lucrative speaking gigs and fancy cars? Perhaps. But as Ralph Waldo Emerson (another outspoken Harvard man) once said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” Cornel West, great mind that...
Though the turning point for America's moral agenda is surely Sept. 11, chroniclers of the arts and other leisure activities still observe the Julian calendar. Hence our annual review of cultural events, recalled with fondness or contempt. Except for the film Kandahar and David Letterman's TV show, the items cited here do not relate directly to the attacks on the U.S. But they do speak to our need to look back: to Greek myths (reinvented off-Broadway), to John Adams (in a new biography), to '70s punk (rekindled by the Strokes). We also look up (at the winged...
...lies" and "exaggerations." The next day, it admitted the undercarriage of a Blackhawk helicopter was ripped off flying at low level. At first, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted there was "absolutely no evidence" that the U.S. mistakenly bombed a military hospital in Herat. Turns out he was wrong. Undiscriminating contempt for Taliban assertions inevitably raises questions about his promise that from the Pentagon "you will receive only honest, direct answers...