Word: contently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Tucker writes, e-mail is not analogous to the telephone. The ruling to which the column refers in order to claim that free speech does not hold for telephone conversations of course applies to a technology which no longer exists, namely party lines. On today's telephone systems, content of conversations is unregulated because the technology is fundamentally different than it was in 1883. In 1883, conversations between two parties were not private, and could be heard by other parties on the same circuit...
...social norms--said that government programs "only help colored folk and pointy-headed Jews, but God helps those who help themselves." We affirm the right of the Record to have a Fenno, and we believe that Fenno serves an important purpose in the competitive atmosphere of HLS. However, the content of Fenno's remarks was highly inappropriate and undermines the very purpose of open discourse that Fenno is supposed to uphold...
Although we again affirm the thought behind a Fenno, we are highly disappointed in the content of Fenno's writing and in the editorial staff of the Record that allowed such destructive and racist comments to flow freely in its pages. We encourage the Record to be more responsible in its selection of the individual whom it designates as a social critic and for whom it provides a public forum. Any free speech, especially with the latitude of anonymity, needs to be wielded responsibly. Both the human hand that holds Fenno's pen and the editorial board that oversees...
...class. I thought that taking African-American Studies 137y: "The African-American Literary Tradition" with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. this semester would be equivalent to taking "The Bible and its Interpreters" with Maimonides, but I found instead that Gates' popularity and acclaim ultimately detract from the content of his course...
...them on campus or attending the occasional lecture is one thing--enrolling in one of their classes is another. I am enticed by fame and grandeur as much as the next guy, but time and electives are precious commodities. So I switched into an English seminar and will be content to read Gates on the side...