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...Jewish fundamentalists, usually referred to by the more polite term 'Orthodox,'" writes Rita Lin, in an essay about prejudices against Islamic Fundamentalism. I'd like to introduce myself: I am an Orthodox Jew, living in Eliot House here at Harvard. I don't own a gun, I don't belong to a terrorist organization, I don't have any dreams for world domination, and I don't go around blowing up buses...
...reluctant to give up on America's war in Vietnam, but after one trip to Saigon, reported back to his colleagues in New York that the best result one could reasonably expect was a standoff with North Vietnam. He takes responsibility, however, for writing, above a TIME essay defending the war, this headline: THE RIGHT WAR AT THE RIGHT TIME...
Would Barbara Ehrenreich's satirical commentary about a toy company and child labor [ESSAY, Dec. 23] have a happier ending if multinational firms fired their child workers? Has Ehrenreich considered that the children are working not because they are forced to but for some other reason? In developing countries today, child income is necessary for a family's survival, as it was in the U.S. in the past. For my part, I find child labor a lesser evil than child starvation. ROBERT S. CARR Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan...
Just exactly what our equivocator's answer has to do with the original question is hard to say. The equivocator writes an essay about the point, but never...
Consequently, the grader often mentally assumes that the right answer is known by the equivocator and marks the essay as an extension of the point rather than a complete irrelevance...