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Qorvis partner Michael Petruzzello denied anything was done covertly. But the Saudi role in the ads shocked Qorvis' law firm, Patton Boggs, which also represents the Saudi embassy. When the ads ran, some Patton Boggs partners who protested them--including one who quit over the flap--were led to believe the Saudi government was not involved. --By Michael Weisskopf and Timothy J. Burger
...always drawling about some legislative gambit on the Sunday TV talk shows. For a man who has occupied leadership positions in the House and Senate for 23 years, Lott has little to show for it by way of political vision or legislative authorship. In that sense, the Thurmond flap was a defining moment for Lott--a chance to prove that he had grown and changed and was fit to be a national leader...
...perseverance turns a flap into a crisis. What this episode is about is far more than another Beltway gaffe. It's quite simply about the soul of the Republican Party. For decades, since the Republicans became the repository for some white Southern resentment of the civil rights era, the G.O.P. has walked a delicate line between legitimate support for small government and strong defense of and illegitimate reliance on racial resentments. In the past five years or so, there has been a welcome and clear attempt to grapple more directly with the question of race. Figures like Ward Connerly...
...defending himself against the Muslim Legal Defense and Education Fund’s disciplinary complaint, Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz considers his controversial article in light of the recent Tom Paulin flap: “He wants to kill Jews and they’re complaining that I said to knock down a few buildings that harbor terrorists.” (News, “Muslim Lawyers File Dershowitz Complaint,” Nov. 22) This description of his own article will astonish anyone who happens to have read it. “A New Response to Palestinian...
...interesting that those who are susceptible to getting chilled always manage to speak their minds anyway? So it is that Professor of Psychology Patrick Cavanagh, who signed the anti-Israeli divestment petition that Summers criticized earlier this year, can write a letter to The Crimson about the Paulin flap and tell “Ayatollah Summers” that his “bigotry is showing.” Those do not sound like the words of a chilled man. Nor does Paulin seem to have suffered much hypothermia, as his friends report that he will likely accept the English...