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Some of Lewis' colleagues defend him as an energetic and frank professor who has bravely taken a number of unpopular stands for the good of the College...
Johnson also instituted the popular Rape Aggression Defense program (RAD), in which specially trained officers teach female students how to defend themselves from rape...
Some might argue that this is bad journalism. Not being a professional journalist, I will pass on this question. But I will certainly defend this practice as intellectually responsible and even necessary in a university setting. In a community of ideas like Harvard, one that likes to fashion itself as vibrant and thriving, it is crucial that the place be shaken up on a regular basis. Unpopular opinions need to be expressed so that we do not grow complacent and intellectually lazy...
Rhoda Berenson maintains that her daughter has never had a chance to defend herself against these charges. "The whole system is a secret one, where you don't know what the evidence is or what the charges are based on," she told TIME last week. Berenson may have one chance for a reprieve. She was convicted of treason, the most serious terrorism offense, and her Peruvian lawyers are appealing on the technical ground that she cannot be tried for this crime. "It is against international law to prosecute a foreigner for treason," says Grimaldo Achahui. "You can't take away...
...course, impossible to defend the indefensible--and the brutalization of children, anytime, anywhere, is indefensible. So the starvation and abuse of Chinese orphans and foundlings documented in the recent highly publicized report from Human Rights Watch/Asia deserves--no, demands--our attention. But what will the nature of that attention be? Since the report's release, the Western press has largely accepted the blanket characterization of China's orphanages as "a secret world of starvation, disease and unnatural death." Never mind that the broad condemnation omits context: by Beijing's own conservative estimate, 70 million of China's 1.2 billion citizens...