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...Simon DeDeo's op-ed savaging Margaret Thatcher's legacy ("The Darker Side of the Iron Lady," Oct. 28) is sadly misinformed. First, in the case of the Falklands War, Thatcher was responding to an invasion of sovereign British territory, territory whose inhabitants despised the invaders. While the eventual liberation of the islands might not have made "economic sense" as DeDeo points out, there was still a moral imperative to act decisively in the face of Argentinian aggression...
Second, Thatcher might have launched a war on the Irish Republican Army, but it was under her government that Britain and Ireland first made joint efforts to make peace in Northern Ireland. Finally, DeDeo presents Thatcher's confrontation with Arthur Scargill's coal unions as economically disruptive--never mind that the 1980s were on the whole a boom-time for the English economy. Thatcher's actions against the overpowerful unions were actually key to the restructuring of Britain that went on during her tenure...
...accept them as individuals with the capacity for love and lust. The outspoken nature of "Clit Notes" is in part a protest against people such as Oppenheim who consider lesbians de facto excluded from moral behavior because of the "threat" they pose to America's social cohesion. SIMON J. DEDEO '00 April...
...show that prosperity and complacency do not go hand in hand. We must show that, secure in our freedom, we challenge our government not to appease, not to ignore, but to engage the Chinese government with a moral courage that it has failed to show thus far. --Simon J. DeDeo...
...first team included: Norman Juvonen (E), Cornell; Barney Berlinger (E), Penn; Robert Shaunessy (T), Harvard; Edward Savitsky (T), Cornell; and Alvin Krutsch (G), Dartmouth; Joseph DeDeo (G), Princeton; Donald Warburton (C), Brown; Frank Finney (QB), Brown; John Crouthamel (HB), Dartmouth; John Heyd (HB), Princeton; and Paul Choquette (FB), Brown...