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...made for a first-year property law course, which was posted on an on-line HLS outline bank. Explaining a case regarding racially restrictive property covenants, Camara wrote, “Nigs buy land with no nig covenant; Q: Enforceable?” The new information set off a firestorm at Yale, especially after the Journal’s editors decided not to rescind their offer to publish the article or their invitation to a symposium with the edition’s other contributors later this month. Though submissions to the Journal, like most law reviews, are usually anonymous, submissions...
...Review published anti-black and anti-Semitic material and personally attacked both faculty members and Freedman’s own family, he convened a series of University-wide meetings and conversations at which he delineated the line between free speech and personal abuse. Freedman was willing to confront a firestorm, and, because of his timing, conviction, and eloquence, he succeeded in marginalizing the Review.Freedman is not a “namby-pamby.” Nor was Derek C. Bok, an articulate leader of this University and of American higher education for 20 years. Other admirable leaders in the recent...
...president released the transcript of his remarks on women in science, and a second statement just hours after the Faculty voted a lack of confidence in him last March 14.The Corporation has yet to make any sort of statement regarding this month’s firestorm. But Glaeser said the board must go beyond issuing press releases.“What I’m actually looking for is Mr. Houghton to actually attend a Faculty meeting and make it clear what the rules are going forward,” Glaeser said, referring to James R. Houghton...
...Bush's provocative comments in Japan on Wednesday. Bush had proclaimed Taiwan "free and democratic and prosperous," and implied that the democratic political system in the territory that Beijing considers a renegade province would make a fine model for China. Such comments might once have set off a diplomatic firestorm, but this time, Beijing is unlikely to make them an issue. The U.S. president?s remarks were not printed in Chinese newspapers, and a foreign ministry spokesman admonished that "all countries should communicate based on the principles of fairness and respect, and not interfere with each other's internal affairs...
...ROBERT DALLEK History professor, Boston University Bush is in a situation where you have the whiff of Vietnam and the smell of Watergate, and there are few examples of Presidents who got into trouble this deep and worked out of it. Reagan ran into a firestorm over Iran-contra, and he was rescued by his relationship with Gorbachev and dealing with the Soviet Union. For Bush, the Iraq war is a burden he won't be able to shake until he can end the conflict. All the rhetoric about democracy, the Iraqi constitution--I think the public is skeptical since...