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...critical and was offensive to some Chinese classmates of mine. Considering that The Crimson's editorial was the "pro" article in a set of disagreeing essays on Jiang's visit makes me wonder if you even conceived that the badly researched information you were presenting as factual could be contested. I was a student at a university in Beijing for five months last semester, and in fact made friends with a student who ran for his life at Tiananmen when the Chinese army cracked down. My experiences, strengthened by discussions with other Americans who have lived in China, lead...
News articles, particularly those about Israel, often lack or misrepresent critical factual information. The coverage of each successive incident in the Middle East portrays Israelis and Palestinians as alternately aggressors and victims, leaving both sides to believe the media is biased against them...
When we, as readers, do not even have the factual information as a necessary starting point for rational discourse, we are vulnerable to believing propaganda and false reporting. And by participating and encouraging the verbal battle, the press is doing its part to destroy the now vital peace process. Reading The Crimson, talking with West Bank settlers and Palestinian rights activists and visiting army bases where boys barely eighteen carry M-16s, have made me less than optimistic about the chances for peace in the Middle East...
...deeply disturbed and offended by your most recent PBHA article, PBHA Board To Consult Cabinet" (Aug. 15). In it, numerous factual errors and misinterpretations of complex topics were presented, resulting in factual contradictions and skewing of my position in the PBHA-Harvard negotiations...
...school experiences? Which openings in the course catalog were "relevant" to my future? History and literature was the perfect major. Its interdisciplinary approach encouraged exploration of common themes and original scholarship. It was in Donald Fleming's American intellectual history course that I really first understood that factual conclusions have a lot to do with who is determining the facts and reaching the conclusions. My tutors, Barry O'Connell and Gail Parker, directed my intellectual growth with the right amounts of demand and reassurance...