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...bunch of Harvard football players watching the Italian Stallion slug it out with Apollo Creed. Now that's a memory...
...policy, in place from the start of this academic year, barred written and verbal attacks by students based on race, creed, gender or sexual orientation. The policy also divided the campus into zones, with particular types of speech not permitted in the public zones...
Dropped were Helms' original limitations on artthat denigrated a race, religion, creed, sex,handicap or ethnicity
...sadistic homosexual who advocated violence and murder. Hermann Goring was an air-force veteran without a scruple to his name. "I have no conscience," he liked to declare. "My conscience is Adolf Hitler." But then, Hitler was the conscience of all his cadre. Pan-Germanism was their creed, Adolf their Messiah. When criticized, Hitler would say, "Two thousand years ago, a man was similarly denounced . . . That man was dragged before a court, and they said, 'He is arousing the people!' So he too was an agitator...
...Allies should and easily could have stopped Hitler by force, and their failure has long been condemned as "appeasement." But to the leaders of Britain and France, appeasement was a proudly proclaimed policy, meaning simply negotiating rather than fighting. "Appeasement between the wars was always a self-confident creed," Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert wrote in The Roots of Appeasement. "It was both utopian and practical. Its aim was peace for all time, or at least for as long as wise men could devise...