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Those who ignore history are destined to repeat it, and the multiculturalists and their "coalition for diversity" are waving the same diversionary flag today. As the recent stink over the comments of Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '57 on affirmative action shows us, multiculturalists reflexively suppress discussion about social and educational policies, such as affirmative action, which are premised on the belief that certain groups in society are educationally and economically disadvantaged. Today's diversity proponents favor more symbolic and emotional demands for "representation" in the student body and in the faculty. Contrary to the liberal vision, which takes very...
Wrapping himself in the flag and the First Amendment, Turner adamantly refuses to censor his rappers. Says he: "Where do I get off telling people what they can say?" Actually, even Turner has his limits. He refused to publish a rap group whose songs advocate gang violence. Still, he leaps at the chance to sign up other controversial acts. Now, having conquered the rap world, Turner says he is ready for his next foray -- into hard-rock music -- which may be fertile ground for an infusion of controversy...
Will the perpetrator be carrying a flag? Says former CIA Director Robert Gates: "It's always been a possibility that, as ethnic conflicts spread, the losers might try to exact some sort of price, to attract attention to their cause." But it was by no means certain last week that the Trade Center bombing was an act of political terrorism. During the Gulf War, a bomb found on a chemical storage tank in Virginia instantly raised an alarm. The culprit turned out to be a businessman who hoped to make an insurance-fraud fire look like the work of Iraqis...
Ignorance, not intention, fuels most facially biased actions, agrees Ahmed A. Yearwood '95. "Most cases involving race issues do not involve someone carrying a KKK flag and wearing a hood over their head," he says. "They simply don't know what they're saying...
...murder may be linked to six others, including the deaths of an Israeli security officer and a U.S. serviceman. Prime Minister Suleyman Demirel spoke of "certain powers trying to create division and havoc in Turkey." In Ankara hundreds of thousands of mourners tossed red carnations at Mumcu's flag-draped coffin. At the Iranian consulate in Istanbul and elsewhere, protesting crowds chanted, "We are not Iran...