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Although her handling of these facts makes Faludi an easy target of backlash, it should not be an excuse to dismiss her entire argument. "It's perfectly legitimate to point out errors in any book that has a factoid in every sentence. I'm bound to make mistakes," Faludi says. "But to dismiss the whole argument is not right. We should be more focused on how we overcome the backlash." As Ann Jones, an author and professor at Mount Holyoke, argues, "The big picture is there, and the big picture is accurate...
TSONGAS THE SERIOUS. Looking at what passes for Tsongas' national campaign, it is tempting to dismiss his strong New Hampshire finish as a freak of nature. Tsongas is, after all, a contender who introduced Texas railroad commissioner Bob Krueger as "my Southern connection" and meant it: that is about all the organizational support Tsongas has in many March primary states. The campaign last week had just one staff member in Georgia and a lone 19-year-old holding down the fort in South Carolina. True, Tsongas raised $360,000 the day after New Hampshire, but he still largely depends...
...early January 1991, Harvard University filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit in Massachusetts Superior Court. Harvard argued that the students did not have the legal right to bring the suit--or "standing"--and that the students had not made out a prima facie claim of discrimination. On February 22, 1991, the Superior Court granted Harvard's motion to dismiss on the grounds of standing. It refused, however, to dismiss the case on its merits, finding that the students had made out a prima facie claim of discrimination. The charges of discrimination, then, remain as the students appeal the standing...
There's a lot more, all ugly, with three pages of bibliography, no less, to support it. What does it say about the reader, or the Japanese, that it is harder to dismiss this stuff than if the slurs began "All Jews . . ." or "All Arabs...
Others, however, dismiss Buchanan as a crank who stands no chance on a national level and who seems to be a "David Duke without the peroxide." What is the truth? Is this man a threat to the head of his own party, or merely an irresponsible columnist who has grown too big for his britches? Probably the latter. Here...