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...every citizen of the United States is expected to follow—moral norms that prohibit killing except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried to help the technician deliver his own lethal injection, it can hardly be argued that the state believed Williams to be an imminent danger. With the myriad problems afflicting the current criminal justice system, the death penalty also allows for tragic mistakes. Innocent people have too often had their convictions overturned for us to have confidence in the accuracy of the system. In the name of moral consistency, it is incumbent on all governors...
Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature Ruth R. Wisse said that the field of Islamic Studies in America has been plagued with problems, and she worries that those same problems could potentially surface at Harvard depending on how the grant is used. She said the danger is that the courses could be “congratulatory rather than critical...
...mentioned 1989, the year of the Tiananmen crackdown. You've said that came as an incredible shock to you. Do you think Deng Xiaoping did the right thing? LEE: I cannot judge what he did, because I did not have his information. If, in fact, there was a danger of similar outbursts in other cities, then I think he had to move. But I said later to [then Premier] Li Peng, "When I had trouble with my sit-in communist students, squatting in school premises and keeping their teachers captive, I cordoned off the whole area around the schools, shut...
...DANGER OF RADICAL ISLAM TIME: How serious is the threat? LEE: This battle is going to be won and lost in the Middle East. The problem in Iraq is very grave. If the jihadists win there, I'm in trouble here. [Their attitude will be]: We've beaten the Russians in Afghanistan, we've beaten the Americans and the coalition in Iraq. There's nothing we cannot do. We can fix Southeast Asia too. There will be such a surge of confidence for all jihadists. The U.S. must be seen?if not to have prevailed or to have created...
...that. But tell us why. LEE: I met this small man when he came to Singapore in November 1978. This small four-foot-eleven man, but a giant of a leader. He gave me a long spiel?the Russian bear, Vietnam was his Cuba in the Far East, danger for you. I had provided him with a Ming vase spittoon, and I put an ashtray in front of him. He neither smoked nor used the spittoon. The same arrangements at dinner. He did not use either. At dinner he said, "I must congratulate you, you've done a good...