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...pays "homage to those who have taken risky stands on principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe [Dec. 26- Jan. 2]. Klein's praise of President George W. Bush for his words about the importance of freedom and democracy holds little weight against Bush's inept response to the Katrina disaster or his mostly failed approach to curtailing global terrorism. Klein should examine our President's actions rather than his words...
Klein's praise of the president "For standing with human-rights activists throughout the world" was off the mark. All Americans stand up for freedom, and most represent American values better than Bush does. His Administration propagates misinformation, circumvents the law and defends his actions-no matter how foolhardy-while attempting to squelch objective criticism...
...because campus police forces operate similarly across the country. The failure of HUPD to allow access to its records compromises our ability to investigate and report on issues of sexual assault and racial profiling, among other matters on the Harvard campus. The way in which HUPD has impaired our freedom to report has reverberations far beyond the Harvard campus. Many other student press organizations filed amicus briefs on our behalf, including the Student Press Law Center, the Heights Newspaper at Boston College, the Brown Daily Herald, the New England Press Association, the Society Professional Journalists, the Associated Collegiate Press...
...personal feelings about the controversy posed a problem for his senior staff, who were trying to convince the president to sound a more repentant tone in public. But according to several people familiar with the discussions in Mass. Hall, Summers was reluctant to bend on two key points: academic freedom, which he felt should have protected his right to hypothesize on unsettled scientific issues, and the faculty’s criticisms of his leadership, which he thought were unfair and ill-willed...
...believe that everyone has the desire to be free,? Bush says, but his critics charge that the price of a war to spread freedom abroad has meant restricting it here at home. This is not just a matter of obvious and necessary measures to track bad guys and stop them. It includes the freedom to even have this argument...