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...students, such as Dems President Brigit Helgen ’08 said that they found the content and tone of the letter perplexing because they had not been aware that the party grants had been under debate...
...really think the time is right for this kind of content: for short, bite-sized little clips,” says Lebwohl...
Worst of all, University administrators have given these foreign elements free reign for the past half-century. Rather than force them to take remedial courses about this country, catching up to their peers’ years of high school history courses, professors’ refusal to mandate American content in the curriculum gives foreigners a hall pass. Rather than quarantine them in some kind of international dormitory, we deliberately mix them into the rooms of unsuspecting Midwesterners, under the bizarre assumption that living with someone who thinks it’s acceptable for heterosexual men to kiss and embrace...
David Golding accurately captures the “be-healthy-or-I’ll-kill-you” attitude of the antismoking movement and its antiseptic goal of a world without tobacco (“Life Kills,” comment, Sept. 12). Reformers, however, are not content only to outlaw smoking in bars and restaurants, to tax cigarettes exorbitantly, or to stigmatize smokers. They hope to eliminate it from the historical record...
...novel tells the hardboiled tale of Meyer Landsman as he attempts to solve a strange and seemingly inconsequential murder while dealing with the burdens of his depression and alcoholism, his disintegrated marriage, and the coming reversion of his Jewish homeland to the American government. In both form and content, Chabon’s novel is a true expression of pluralism, firmly grounded in both its particularity and its universality, fully Jewish and fully American. It’s a powerful challenge to the politics of Israel and the United States. It’s a haunting exploration of the mysteries...