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What could the Harvard community do? Law School faculty could offer to defend the students and join class action suits against the Miami police and city government. Campus officials could join Human Rights Watch in calling for an independent inquiry into the Miami events. Kennedy School of Government academics could do a comparative study of the Cancun and Miami models of policing protests. Most importantly, now that Harvard has formally contracted with the Worker Rights Consortium, an independent watchdog over its licensing practices, faculty and students can identify and reform the flagrant sweatshop abuses that abound...
Howard, who is co-president of Students for a Free Tibet, said she will defend her actions before the Administrative Board in a hearing tentatively scheduled...
...defend Playboy against charges of objectifying women. In fact, the airbrushed perfection of some Playmates struck me as robotoid, threw cold water on my desires even when every voyeuristic impulse was begging to be satisfied. And putting cotton tails and bunny ears on Playboy Club hostesses made them no more alluring than Bugs Bunny in drag. But just as surely, the feminists? very sensible argument flies in the face of biology and culture. ?Men look at women,? John Berger famously wrote. ?Women watch themselves being looked at.? I believe he also said that the camera is a man looking...
Gloria had an American flag put up outside the house to honor her son, but inside, the family's patriotism is mixed with dismay. "I don't know what this war is about," confesses Gloria. Says Victor, 68: "We have to defend the country. I'm proud of Cesar." But, he adds, "I see the news. I'm scared." Commenting on the arrest of Saddam, Martha says, "We're glad they got him. I hope it's over, but I don't think so." Victor Jr. pitches in: "It's pretty dumb. People are dying when the war is supposedly...
...democracy and sacrifice and is a recurring theme in American history. Abraham Lincoln constantly worried about those who criticized the Civil War for its enormous loss of life and its aim of ending slavery to save the Union. And while World War II raged in Europe, F.D.R. had to defend his Lend-Lease program against isolationists in Congress. Only time will tell whether the Iraq war is worth the cost. WALTER LEE Orange, Calif...