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...recency of the Holocaust and the existence of so many first-hand eyewitnesses to it may make the goal of the revisionists seem almost laughable. However, if the purpose of studying history is to gain lessons for the future, one such lesson is that no idea is too ridiculous to be taken seriously. After all, the Nazi ideology which resulted in world war and the extermination of millions was once considered by German intellectuals to be too ridiculous to be taken seriously. With that in mind, Holocaust revisionism should not be discounted as too far-fetched an idea to ever...
...frosh, who descended on Cambridge yesterday, are staying with Harvard undergraduates, experiencing dorm or House life first-hand...
Michelman spoke at length about her own pre-Roe abortion in 1970. "I know first-hand how absolutely essential Roe is to women's rights... Roe vs. Wade saved women from the shame, degradation and horror [of illegal abortions]," she said...
Scully most effectively deploys his eloquence when he discusses single buildings and architectural ensembles. He illustrates the way in which the first-hand experience of a building, as he claims in the preface, is the only way to "see things as they are." In his description of the crossing of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, Scully amplifies on this point...
Unger, who was one of Kitingan's professors at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, says he concurs with Abelmann's opinion. Unger says of his former pupil, "He was a good student [who] had more first-hand knowledge. He had good academic preparation, [but] was very lively and interested in the topic, not a bookish type at all. That doesn't mean that he didn't read and think about his country...