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...Shachar's editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom" (Nov. 29), relies on a multitude of factual misrepresentations and dubious assertions in its advocacy of restrictions on freedom of speech. Ben-Shachar argues that voices that "exploit" free speech to argue against the predominant values of a "free" society should be silenced. Free speech, however, is not a means but an end in itself...
...have finally discovered the dubious joys of Doom. I sampled the original two years ago, of course, shortly after it spread across the Internet. But the truth is, Doom made me sick. Not the blood and guts of it--Doom is no gorier than, say, a Sam Peckinpah movie. What nauseated me was the vertigo that came from peering over a gun barrel while twisting down narrow corridors...
...with the discovery of the flawed mirror, easy access to the Hubble's innards was crucial. Even so, installation of a complex array of corrective mirrors--essentially fitting the Hubble with a set of eyeglasses--was a high-cost ($700 million), high-risk venture, and some astronomers were dubious. "They considered the whole thing to be rather a Rube Goldberg creation," says Spitzer. On top of that, the list of tasks assigned to the astronauts who flew the repair mission--not just installing the new optics, but replacing an outdated camera, two wobbly solar-energy panels and three faulty gyroscopes...
...Pentagon has launched an internal probe to determine how much was wasted on unnecessary weapons because of the bad reports. Intelligence sources say much of the information supplied by the doubles dealt with Russian aircraft, missile and radar capabilities. But Pentagon officials are privately dubious that they'll be able to pin billions of dollars in waste on the CIA reports. The Defense Department squanders money on unneeded weapons mostly because of pork-barrel politics, interservice rivalries and lobbying by contractors...
...anyone deserves the dubious title of spiritual leader of the Jewish extremists, it is the late Meir Kahane, the American-born founder of the militant, occasionally violent Jewish Defense League. Kahane moved his operations to Israel in the 1970s, where he began a political movement called Kach (Thus). It wasn't long before Kahane's toxic rhetoric fomented murder. In 1983, during a rally held by the Peace Now leftist group, a lone right-winger--not much different from Rabin's alleged assassin, Yigal Amir--threw a grenade into the crowd, killing one Israeli man. It was the first time...