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With that as our motivation, public religious displays and activities seem highly appropriate. Not to allow them would contradict the spirit of diversity that Harvard claims to foster. Houses should have Christmas trees in their dining hall if students want them...
Indeed, the examples cited by Ben-Shachar if anything contradict his argument. Fore example, he claims that the Oklahoma bombing of last spring was the end result of the "continuous denigration of government officials." In Ben-Shachar's ideal word, political criticism apparently is not protected speech. Explosives and a deranged disregard for human life--and not words--destroyed the federal building...
YOUR ARTICLE STRENGTHENS A BELIEF I have long held, that human beings are a singularly vicious, selfish and shortsighted species whose status as rulers of the world seems to contradict Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest. Continued disregard of the planet we live on will surely cause us to be "naturally selected'' right out of the picture. SCOTT KNUDSEN New York City
...fair return under any auspices, except, perhaps, Carol Channing's. Bilious, outrageous and full of flinty, funny challenge, Faust has undergone sardonic transformation from what the author calls Goethe's "big brain thing" into a fleet Newmanesque parable of eliding destinies and colliding cultures. It is also guaranteed to contradict any lingering impression that, as Newman notes, "people think I've disappeared." But, he adds quickly, "it's not like I'm selling a million records and the public is begging for the album and there are pseudo intellectuals out there crying for Newman...
...Simpson's defensesuffered a setback when a North Carolina judge ruled that, despite screenwriter Laura Hart McKinny's assertion that Los Angeles Police detective Mark Furman used racial slurs during taped interviews, the defense could not compel her to testify. McKinney's testimony seemed to contradict the detective's flat denial that he had ever used such slurs during the past ten years when he was under cross-examination by defense attorney F. Lee Bailey. The defense would like to undercut that testimony, saysTIME's James Willwerth. "What's really at stake here is playing the racial card. The defense...