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The first complication is that although the neighborhood standard ought not to be Israel's, it cannot be ignored when judging Israel. Why? It is plain that compared with the way its neighbors treat protest, prisoners and opposition in general, Israel is a beacon of human rights. The salient words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Judging Israel | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

As a Harvard student exposed to enlightened modes of thought through the Core Curriculum, I know it is unfair to condemn an entire holiday on the basis of 20 consecutive years of humiliation. So I spent the last several hours researching the prehistory of Valentine's Day in an effort...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: ...and a Man's Disillusionment | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

Even now, every American response to Soviet reforms is in some way a product of that Cold War view. If it isn't a victory of us over them, it's a flip-flop of that, an enlightened cry for a move of us toward them. Even as the chroniclers...

Author: By Daniel B. Baer, | Title: Why Us Versus Them Still Matters | 2/14/1990 | See Source »

When a public forum like the editorial page of a somewhat enlightened newspaper such as The Crimson becomes the site for disciplining the already marginal voices of campus gays and proscribing for them more acceptable mores (read here also the word "Victorian," or even "Catholic") in place of some invented...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Editorial Was Violent | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

Where to from here? Most likely, politics as usual: Congress will insist on a more enlightened use of Head Start's appropriation, and the President will | someday campaign against the Democrats for failing to accommodate the larger number of kids he was ready to help.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lyndon Baines Bush? | 2/12/1990 | See Source »

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