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Just ask Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60. When Nesson offered to defend Scholl in a mock trial, he encountered objections nearly as vociferous as the initial clamor. BLSA demanded that Nesson be publicly censured and barred from teaching first-year classes, and Nesson agreed to step down from teaching all but the final lecture of his torts class this year...
...force will not solve any problem. The U.N. always condemns suicide bombings and any attack of terror,” Annan said. “Israel has a right to defend itself but should never use more force than what is needed to defend itself...
...administration says that it is developing a new plan to defend America’s nuclear storage facilities, and that it does not want to throw money away in the meantime. But this plan has been in the making since last September, and there are no signs that it will be completed any time soon. Although the administration should be actively trying to speed up the completion and implementation of its new plan, bureaucratic inertia and inter-departmental bickering should not jeopardize America’s security. Before it is finalized, the Energy Department must be given the money...
...reach out, become more open-minded and not be intimidated. What they have on their side is little more than rhetoric, though: They wish everyone would make a conscious effort to diversify. But there’s little evidence that that will happen in the near future: Those who defend self-segregation, though they may object to the term itself, offer a number of concrete reasons why students come together in ethnically separate groups. Such social behavior is understandable, they say; it’s beneficial and it’s so natural that even those who attack...
...particular piece of evidence to defend himself, and his problems have made it even easier to target the presidency of Harvard, the school that supposedly has it all. (Hey, I have this column, don’t I?) He has been far more prominent in the news for his fumbles than for any real achievement. His promises of advising improvements and Faculty increases have made headlines, but he has made no notable change in any of the problem areas he has identified. He heads a University that moves at a snail’s pace, and his lack of focus...